Syntax for finding period (.) in email TLD

[Thomas Fortino]

Hello All,

 I wrote a brief XLTP tclproc a few months ago to send an email address if there was anything before and after the @. I have to update the tcproc to look for the TLD (Top Level Domain), and send email address if there is something after the (.) period but I can’t get the syntax correct.

Example –

SEND  – xxxxx@aol.com

Send nothing – xxxxx@aol

Below is a portion of the XLTP proc currently in use.

          set email {}

          set email2 {}

       

         if [regexp — {.+@.+} [lindex $xlateInVals 0]] {

     

            set email [lindex $xlateInVals 0]

                         

         } else {

           

           set email $email2

   

}

 set xlateOutVals

       }

Topic

[Tom Rioux]

Hey Tom….I think this may work for you.  Try it and let me know if it is what you are looking for.   Here is what I’ve done:

set email tomr@aol.com

set email2 tomr@aol

set email3 @aol.com

set email4 tomr@aol.

Here are the results from each:

hcitcl>regexp — {(.+@)(.+..+)} $email

1

hcitcl>regexp — {(.+@)(.+..+)} $email2

0

hcitcl>regexp — {(.+@)(.+..+)} $email3

0

hcitcl>regexp — {(.+@)(.+..+)} $email4

0

Hope this helps…

Tom Rioux

[Jim Kosloskey]

Tom,

Here is another method:

Use the file Tcl command with the extension attribute.

Assuming my_variable has your email address ( xxxxx@aol.com ):

file extension $my_variable will return .com – if there was no extension, null would be returned.

So you can just do a simple if with a string equal and the file extension to see if the extension exists.

An added note: to get the stuff in front of the extension, use file rootname.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Thomas Fortino]

Thanks Tom for your reply. I just tried your regexp using tclx and it worked great. I going to update the XLTP and then test out the translation using real data. Thank again for your help.

Jim thanks for your reply as well.

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