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Comment on AS3 Email Validation by Adam

Adam — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:29 +0000

But, my email address, a@…, does not work because I have only one letter to the left of the @ symbol and it doesn’t accommodate people with underscores in their addresses too. I used this instead. It handles .COMs and .CO.UKs, too:

/([a-z0-9._-]+?)@([a-z0-9.-]+)\.([a-z]{2,4})/;

Cheers,
Adam

Comment on AS3 Email Validation by ale

ale — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:05:07 +0000

Many thanks!

Comment on AS3 Email Validation by lukegill

lukegill — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:34:55 +0000

The reason that 12345@email.com is shown as valid..is because you can actually have 123456 as your email name. It obviously depends on your mail server. Secondly, the reason something@email….com s shown as valid is because there is no way to determine how many ‘.’ are used after an ‘@’ sign. Somebody may have an email address ’something@something.mail.ac.uk’ (3 ‘.’s) For this reason, the only way to 100% validate the email would be to get php etc to run a DNS check on the provided email address and return the result.
Since actionscript is client-side we are limited to basic validation without the use of a server-side language.

Hope this answers your questions.

Comment on AS3 Email Validation by Roy

Roy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:48:28 +0000

This script returned
«something@email…com» as valid ???
«123456@email.com» as valid ???

Comment on New site, new technology… by Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:18:38 +0000

Nice blog man, Wordpress is great for the blog section of any site and with the customizable templating system you can make it look identical to the rest of your site if you so please.