Email characteristics test

BigDave

My goal is to confirm a player input (text) to be an email.
Besides of a min. of 5 Characters I also do check that it contains "@".

Problem:
If I check if it contains "." it accepts any character as an "."
While the other checked symbols, numbers and letters can be differentiated by the "contains" of "text expression"

I assume its a gamesalad bug?

BigDave

BigDave

Hopscotch

@BigDave escape it like this

if contains "%."

Or better, use textFind to check that at least one "." appears after the "@".

BigDave

Done! Thanks!

BigDave

Ha I got another issue.
I check if the @ is before the .
which works fine.

Tough if an email look like this hey.hey@gmail.com
it is seen as a wrong email

how do I say start checking after the @?

current version
textFind( scene.Email ,"@,1) < textFind( scene.Email ,%.",1)

Hopscotch

@BigDave

first find the position of "@"
then use textSubStr to get the string after the "@, i.e. gmail.com"
then check for a "."

tatiang

Decided to try my hand at this. I think I came up with a pretty good parser but... it fails because of a textFind() that somehow finds a period within text that doesn't contain one. Hmm.

Edit: forgot about this: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/525201/#Comment_525201

Hopscotch

@tatiang I showed up top how to escape the "."
You need to use "%." in LUA

tatiang

Yep, @Hopscotch... reading ftw. Oops!

tatiang

Here's a version where the period detection works properly.

BigDave

Thanks guys using your solution @tatiang
the separation of username, domain and the @ position is nice