Input Masks for email and websites

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JMMach, MCSC

I'm trying to define an input mask form email data capture and website data
capture.
Using <\w\w\w\.AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.AAa for the website works OK, but the @
symbol in the email address is messing me up.
Has anyone got any suggestions for both of these?

Thanks in advance.
JMMach, MCSC
 
My suggestion is, don't do it. Web site addresses and e-mail addresses vary
far too much to be amenable to input masks. Look at your existing web site
address mask, for example - it will disallow perfectly valid web site
addresses such as http://msdn.microsoft.com and www.bbc.co.uk

Input masks just aren't flexible enough to handle this level of complexity.
If you really need to validate this data, check out regular expressions
instead.

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