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delbert
April 8, 2008, 8:32am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
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We're running version 8.3 on our forum and have a user that can't register their email address because it has an apostrophe in it. I've checked on this forum as well and it still says an address with an apostrophe in it is invalid. Is there an option I can change to support this character or have I found a problem?

Apologies if this discussion has been done before but searching for ' was not very successful

Many thanks,

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Hi there DelBert,

You will need to edit 2 files to achieve this, Register.pl and ProfileEdit.pl

Look for:

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if($FORM{'email'} !~ /\A([0-9A-Za-z\._\-]{1,})


and change to:

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if($FORM{'email'} !~ /\A([0-9A-Za-z\._'\-]{1,})


in both files.

Only tested this in the latest version and it worked but this line is the same as 8.3



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Thanks Martin that seems to have done the trick.

I did try testing it but it seems our mail servers won't allow addresses with apostrophe's either so it seems Eblah isn't the only software that doesn't like them!

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