Re: [flasher] Detecting valid email format F4

[PSWoods]

whoops. just read your *full* message. Flash 4.


i take your script is in Perl?


solution:

(1) replace your script with one of the form mail scripts that validates the

'from' variable

(2) change the html output of the script to something that F4 can read,

(e.g. "errMsg=notValid" for the error message, instead of the standard HTML

output the script will have).

(3) create a 2-frame loop to check for errMsg

(4) convince client to use F5




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From: "JGL" <

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To: "flasher from chinwag" <

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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:37 PM

Subject: [flasher] Detecting valid email format F4



> Ok, I need to detct that an email address a user puts in a form field is

> formatted properly.

>

> Minimum formatting would be:

>

>

xx [dot] xx

>

> In otherwords, it *must* contain a '@' and a '.', plus it must have

> *atleast* 1 character before the '@' and *atleast* 1 character after the

'@'

> or before the '.', plus *atleast* two characters after the '.'

>

> Anyone one do this before and have a quick F4 solution that checks before

> the form is submitted? I need this cause the cgi mailer I'm using won't

> submit without this parameter.

>

> I could just use a valid e-mail addy as the'from' field but would like to

> make it convenient for my client to simply hit reply when he receives a

cgi

> generated mail.

>

> Thanks for any insight . . . .

>

>

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