Oh, OK, that makes sense, but why is that checking people's names -- because we're doing them in the form:
John H <johnh@blah.com>
or something?
So just chuck out the nice bit and just reduce it to the bare address is the quick solution.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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John H - Feb 26, 2003 5:45:54 pm PST #3255 of 10000
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 5:47:54 pm PST #3256 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes, that's what we're checking.
I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though. Just the other modules that'll need to be changed.
John H - Feb 26, 2003 6:01:51 pm PST #3257 of 10000
I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though.
Oh I didn't even look at it properly, I see the problem. It's designed to include optional non-email text.
Easy peasy:
[a-z ]
at the start is "a sequence of letters or spaces" so it should be enough just to put in
[a-z.' -]
which I just tested, and matches
P-M.M' Marcontell
which contains all the possible punctuation in people's names, I think.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 7:34:17 pm PST #3258 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(There's the underscore....)
John H - Feb 26, 2003 7:48:50 pm PST #3259 of 10000
Who has an underscore in their name?
But yeah, if that's an issue, put that in between the brackets as well. Does anyone have a number in their name?
If they do, then maybe we want
[\\w .'-]
which will match that well-known Buffista
p.m-m'm_ m4rc0nt3ll
because the \\w includes all letters, numbers and the underscore.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 8:00:37 pm PST #3260 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Who has an underscore in their name?
Jenny_G comes to mind.
I mean, really, there's no limit to the punctuation, isn't there? Didn't a /mieskie register (and get booted, but, yeah, well)? Someone could register with an asterisk. Maybe someone has.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:10:28 pm PST #3261 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Spawn1, DCM1101 (Paul's user name), and a couple others I think use numbers. Anyone with ~? I know they were popular before WX let you lc your name without them.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:12:59 pm PST #3262 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also, FUCKERS!!!!!
We seem to have a lot of characters in usernames that I wouldn't have expected.
John H - Feb 26, 2003 8:52:03 pm PST #3263 of 10000
It it's really that complicated, I think the concept of email address needs to be redefined to be "the bits wrapped around the @", and put the username somewhere else.
Not that you can't write a regular expression to say "anything at all goes here" but then you have to start working from the other end, "anything at all except for the @ symbol", etc.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:53:06 pm PST #3264 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ooo! Did I mention we have people with @ in their names?