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Re: How to check for special charcters in an email address using plsql code?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:12:18 +0200
Message-ID: <ec535r$20i$2@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


vkatekan_at_yahoo.com schreef:
> Thank you, Frank. But somehow the escape_sc function is not working for
>
> n_d_t_at_yahoo.coma
> email address. Any thoughts, why it's not filtering out this one and is
> there any generic plsql function to validate an email address?
>
> Regards,
> Rao
>
>
>
> Frank van Bortel wrote:

>> vkatekan_at_yahoo.com schreef:
>>
>>> Hi There,
>>> I am trying to write a plsql function to filter an email address which
>>> has a special address in it.  I tried to filter them out by creating a
>>> table for bad charcters (i.e Chr(0...31 & 127...255), but this is also
>>> filtering out an email address with '_'  charcter and just wondering
>>> how can I accomplish this one.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance for all your inputs.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rao
>> escape_sc (Special Characters) and escape_url functions should be able
>> to accomplish that

>

What's that - a mutibyte character? Are these allowed at all? or is that why you want to filter them out?
-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 14:12:18 CDT

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