[thelist] RegExp in ASP for validating e-mail and URLs?
Alex Beston
alex at deltatraffic.co.uk
Wed Nov 10 06:16:02 CST 2004
Peter Bornhall wrote:
> Hey, first post this!
>
> Is anyone sitting on good regexp functions (return true if valid,
> otherwise false) for validating e-mail addresses and web URL:s?
>
> Best-case scenario, I'm looking for a function that searches through a
> portion of text and finds valid e-mail addresses and replaces them
> with <a href="mailto:-address here-">-address here-</a>. Same goes
> for URL:s, where it would be nice to do the same for valid links.
> What would be an extra addition would be that it would recognize
> already formatted e-mail and link URL:s in the text, and ignore them
> (or at least not break them). URL:s would be formatted as above, but
> with the "http://" and "ftp://" and such removed from the link text.
> I.e. "http://www.domain.com" in the text would yield '<a
> href="http://www.domain.com">www.domain.com</a>' in the end...
>
> Anyone who can regexp this? Personally, I suck at regexps...:-(
>
> - Peter
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