Are there any (free) plug-ins/scripts to validate email addresses and
websites available for FM7?

Thanks,
Kevin

I'm looking for something a bit simpler. All I want to do is validate
the email and URL a user types into the 'email' and 'website' fields.
Nothing fancy, just something that will catch the more egregious data
entry errors.

Has anyone written a Filemaker script to take care of this?

Kevin

audleman (AT) quasika (DOT) net wrote:

Are you saying you want only to check for an @ symbol and and an
acceptable TLD on an email address, the proper configuration for a website
URL?

Matt

In article <1121980076.501188.197500 (AT) z14g2000cwz (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
"audleman (AT) quasika (DOT) net" <audleman (AT) quasika (DOT) net> wrote:

You don't need a script, just use the field's Validation options and
check for illegal characters (eg. spaces, tabs, returns) and for the
necessary legal characters (e.g an @ in the email address).
eg.
PatternCount(Email, " ") = 0
and PatternCount(Email, "¶") = 0 <-- the Return character
and PatternCount(Email, "@") = 1

There's no way of actually checking that the data entered is a proper
valid email or web site address though.

Helpful Harry
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