Re: [IUG] Regular Expression for bad email addresses

["Boggs, John" <boggs at plsinfo dot org>]

According to page 100672 of the manual, it *is* the same as egrep!  (I
know, the manual is lying; I've run into the | for "or" not working
already, and on re-reading I see that {a,b} range notation doesn't work
either by design.)

Thanks, Kyle.

John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager
Peninsula Library System
2471 Flores Street
San Mateo, CA  94403-2273
(650)571-6799 x3062
boggs at plsinfo dot org

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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:25 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: [IUG] Regular Expression for bad email addresses

> I've tested these expressions on exported email address fields using
> egrep, and they work as expected.  So I guess the question is why
don't
> they work in Create Lists?
>
> Unless anybody here knows something that would explain why these
> expressions won't work in Millennium, I think it's time for another
call
> to the help desk...

For starters, regular expression support in Create Lists isn't the
same as egrep. For example, try using a pipe, question mark, back
reference, character class, or performing a case sensitive search.
It's best to test expressions on records that are in the system rather
than using another utility.

Even when the regular expression support is exactly the same for the
need at hand, sometimes the field you are matching against may not be
stored the way you expect.

kyle
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