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From: rockdale on 11 Jun 2008 11:50
Hi, all:


I need to have a masked Textbox for email address input or
a function to validate the email address that user entered.
Did not find anything on the web though.
I am using VC 6.0

thanks
rockdale
From: Alex Blekhman on 11 Jun 2008 15:28
"rockdale" wrote:
> I need to have a masked Textbox for email address input or a
> function to validate the email address that user entered.

This is not as trivial as it may seem. E-mail address may be
pretty complex. You will need regular expression to validate it.
Read here for more info:

"How to Find or Validate an Email Address"
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

In my opinion, the best thing to do is to skip the validation
altogether. Just try to send an e-mail when required. If it goes
through, then the address is valid.

HTH
Alex


From: rockdale on 11 Jun 2008 16:26
Forgive my ignorance, does Visual C++ 6.0 support regExp ?

thanks

On Jun 11, 3:28 pm, "Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REM...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> "rockdale" wrote:
> > I need to have a masked Textbox for email address input or a
> > function to validate the email address that user entered.
>
> This is not as trivial as it may seem. E-mail address may be
> pretty complex. You will need regular expression to validate it.
> Read here for more info:
>
> "How to Find or Validate an Email Address"http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
>
> In my opinion, the best thing to do is to skip the validation
> altogether. Just try to send an e-mail when required. If it goes
> through, then the address is valid.
>
> HTH
> Alex

From: Nathan Mates on 11 Jun 2008 16:50
In article <0ac6e283-6cd5-46f3-be04-98807c3331d6(a)t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
rockdale <rockdale.green(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Forgive my ignorance, does Visual C++ 6.0 support regExp ?

First, please don't top-post. English is read left to right, top to
bottom. Please trim extraneous comments, and place your response
below. Secondly, C/C++ deliberately do not make a lot of functions,
useful or not, part of the base language spec. Things like windowing,
multimedia, and the like are part of that-- so regular expressions are
definitely not part of the base language. However, addon libraries can
(and do) provide these features. If you drop by http://www.pcre.org/ ,
you can download a free library that does regular expressions, and
quite well.

Nathan Mates

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