Re: Code to Validate email addresses

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:15 AM

> Hi,
>
> We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
> email address.
>
> However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and
> invalid email addresses.
>
> Obviously, we can do nothing if they enter an incorrect (but syntactically
> correct) email address.
>
> What I am looking for is:
>
> 1) A definition of the syntactically correct format of an email address
> (from some sort of authoritative source)

check out rfc 822 : http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

>
> 2) Hopefully some pl/sql code that will validate a sting to see if it is a
> valid email address.

That's tough. To really syntactically validate an email address is really hard. There's a 3 page perl program in the backof the O'reily Matsering Regular Expressions Book that does the trick nicely. Maybe you could convert it to something in sqlj.....

>
> If anyone can assist, I would appreciate it!
>
> Regards
> Oweson Flynn
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