Regex and Email

[safewithyou247]

So I need to create code that will read an emil and compare lines against regex and if the lines match then parse them into a variable. I think I have the regex part down. The only problem is I cannot figure out how to read the email.

Can someone help?

[TokersBall_CDXX]

hmm
one way of doing it is....

Dim Regex As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("^(([A-Za-z0-9]+_+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\-+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\.+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\++))*[A-Za-z0-9]+@((\w+\-+)|(\w+\.))*\w{1,63}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$")
If Not Regex.IsMatch(StringOfEmail) Then
 Me.message.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red
 Me.message.Text = "There is a problem with recipient: " & StringOfEmail
 ' bad email address
else 
 ' good email address
End If

you may also want to take a quick peek at The Regular Expression Library Website

[safewithyou247]

But how do I get the email into strings to compare against the regex?

[TokersBall_CDXX]

But how do I get the email into strings to compare against the regex?

that would depend greatly on your UI... how are you taking input of the email addresses? does the user provide them.. or do you have a list to check? a database?

where are the email addresses being provided from.

[safewithyou247]

For the time being the email is just on the local computer that I am running the code. Eventually it will be in a database which I will implement in due time. So I have the file saved locally in .msg format.

[TokersBall_CDXX]

ahh I see, so you're trying to actually read a saved email message saved locally on your system... then parse data from it?

[safewithyou247]

thats it.