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Just bear in mind that an underscore is considered a word caracture by a
regex but a dot or dash os not.<br>
many mail systems allow dots in the username
spike.hodge@inode.co.za<br><br>
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At 2003/06/04 08:16 PM, Nico Coetzee wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> # clear the username
of non ASCII characters<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>$user
=~ s/^\W+//;<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>$user
=~ s/\W+$//;</blockquote>
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