Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread Yesmin Patwary
Dear All, My contact table has email field which contains many invalid email addresses. I find them using following php function. Is there a way to do that check in MySQL query? function emailValidate ($str) { $reg = ^([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9-])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)+$; if

Re: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread Keith Roberts
From: Yesmin Patwary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query. Dear All, My contact table has email field which contains many invalid email addresses. I find them using following php function. Is there a way to do that check in MySQL query

Re: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread Peter Brawley
Yesmin Patwary wrote: Dear All, My contact table has email field which contains many invalid email addresses. I find them using following php function. Is there a way to do that check in MySQL query? function emailValidate ($str) { $reg =

RE: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread fbsd
adding it is the normal way this is done. -Original Message- From: Yesmin Patwary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 10:48 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query. Dear All, My contact table has email field which contains many

RE: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread Keith Roberts
, 20 May 2006, fbsd wrote: To: Yesmin Patwary [EMAIL PROTECTED], mysql@lists.mysql.com From: fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query. You need to use a stronger edit to check email addresses. This is what I use. Note the dns mx domain name check

RE: Find invalid email formats using MySQL query.

2006-05-20 Thread Chris Sansom
At 22:10 +0100 20/5/06, Keith Roberts wrote: Probably the most efficient place to do this sort of field checking would be using javascript in the browser. That would stop the bad addresses even being sent down the line to the server in the first place. Sure, but if you're being conscientious