topic Function to recognize an email address in SAS Programming

Function to recognize an email address

JohnSAScom — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:11:25 GMT

Hi,

Is there a function to recognize whether or not a string represents an email address in correct format?

Thanks,

Re: Function to recognize an email address

tomrvincent — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:53:35 GMT

this might help. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/validate-email-address/m-p/37459#M9526

Re: Function to recognize an email address

JohnSAScom — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:51:57 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion, but I think I only need something that works with 99% of all the e-mail addresses out there, so I think something like this would do, under the first section, "How to Find or Validate an Email Address":

https://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html