Floading in the archives here, there's a reccommended regex for email.
I suspect that the way you've written yours is causing the engine to
have to backtrack too many times. But that's just a guess.
--Ben
JediHomer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ive got a system where we allow a user to upload a CSV containing
> addressbook entries. I run a RegEx Email validation to check that the
> email of the record is in an appropriate format. Currently I have the
> following:
>
> <cfset sPattern =
> "([a-z0-9][-._a-z0-9]*)[EMAIL PROTECTED],1}([a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*\.)+[a-z]{2,7}"
> />
> return IIF(REFindNoCase(sFormatPattern, str) EQ 1, true, false);
>
>
> And similarly in the Javascript:
>
> var emailFilter =
> /([a-zA-Z0-9][-._a-zA-Z0-9]*)[EMAIL
> PROTECTED],1}([a-zA-Z0-9][-_a-zA-Z0-9]*\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,7}/g;
> return emailFilter.test(sEmail);
>
>
> Using an email address of:
>
> foobar.foobar.foobar.mediroute.snet.co.uk
>
> causes the browser (for the javascript) to 'hang' using all the CPU
> and causes CF to do similar (thus never rreturning the page to the
> user)
>
>
> Why is this happening, and how can I avoid potential problems like
> this in the future.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jedi
>
>
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