Input Masks for email and websites

[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

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

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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