validateemailaddress() ?

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What all cases are covered while using validateemailaddress() ?

stefanhelzle0001

Brainy

As this is no function of the Appian product, you would need to check the code.

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mohammedi0002

New Participant

you can get the list of valid emails from google http://softwaretesterfriend.com/manual-testing/valid-invalid-email-address-format-validation/

Tried some based on the valid email format mentioned in the site for some it didnt work.

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everettj3960

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mikes0011

Brainy

nice try...

The Expression Guru

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arpitb7591

Participating Frequently

No all the cases will not be covered using that function.

You can use the below regex expression to check that

"^[a-zA-Z0-9+_.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+$"

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joselleo9535

Known Participant

for validating email address you can use this regex

regexmatch("^[\w\.\-]+@[\w\.\-]+\.[\w\.]{2,}$",ri!input)

mikes0011

Brainy

This pattern fails a bunch of the test cases I have set up in my Validate Email Addresses expression rule. Two of the most obvious/important failure cases is that it doesn't return "false" for email addresses beginning or ending with extraneous periods (".").

This is the pattern I use in mine, which passes a rather rigorous 18 test cases (though i can't guarantee it passes all realistic ones, just the ones i've been able to think of).

regexmatch(
  pattern: "^[A-Z0-9\'\+\&\%_-]+(\.{0,1}[A-Z0-9\'\+\&\%_-]+)*[@]{1}[A-Z0-9.-]*[A-Z0-9-]+[.]{1}[A-Z]{2,6}$",
  searchString: ri!email,
  regexFlags: "si"
)

Also note: all of the above test cases also correctly pass using the "validateEmailAddress()" function from People Functions, for what it's worth.

The Expression Guru