I use Javascript on the client side for this. Something like:
if (myform.email.value.search(/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$/)
== -1)
alert('ERROR: Badly formatted E-mail address.');
error = 1;
return;
}
Gert Koning
University of South Africa
----- Original Message -----
From: ramadevi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 08:49
Subject: Re: Email Validation
> hai
> find the index of '@' and check whether it is first character or not
> you can find the index by using indexOf(char) of string class
>
>
>
> Fei Fei Lua wrote:
>
> > i've been trying to do some validation on email format from a html
form, i need to
> > read " @email.com.cc" and prompt to user that it is not a valid
email format which
> > should be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead.
> >
> > how do i do this ? is this the norm of email validation ???
> > below is my program, when i run i have nullpointer exception at
> > MemberBean.testEmail
> > thank you for your attentions and inputs.
> >
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