[[:alnum:]\-_]
Should be
[[:alnum:]_-]
Otherwise you're matching everything between '\' and '_'. The ASCII sequence
this matches is \[^_
Presumably you want to allow only alpha numeric, _ and - in the domain name.
Spike
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mosh Teitelbaum
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:57 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Email Regex with weird results
>
>All:
>
>I've been using a regex found on this list to validate email addresses.
>I've now run into a problem with the regex that I can't solve.
> Any help
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>The email address is not required so the field can either be
>left blank or
>must contain a valid email address. The regex validation code follows:
>
><CFIF (Len(Trim(FORM.Email)) NEQ 0) AND
>(REFindNoCase("^[a-zA-Z]([[:alnum:]\-_]+\.?)*@([[:alnum:]\-_]+\
.)+[a-zA-Z]{2
>,4}$", FORM.Email) EQ 0)>
> Email address is invalid
></CFIF>
>
>The email address is of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (that is, the domain
>contains a dash). If I remove the dash from the domain, the address
>validates. However, the dash should be valid.
>
>Looking at the regex, doesn't the ([[:alnum:]\-_]+\.) portion
>after the @
>symbol allow for dashes?
>
>TIA
>
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>Mosh Teitelbaum
>evoch, LLC
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