Does anyone know where to change the RegEx in DNN 4.4.1 ? I need to urgently resolve the problem of email addresses containing dashes being considered invalid and am reluctant to upgrade immediately. Thx.

Hi,

I informed the Core team about that several months ago (06/03/2007) on Gemini.

Because the regex is hard coded, you have to install DNN 4.4.1 WITH sources. You need VS 2005 Pro too because you have to re-compile the library.

Open the solution file (DotNetNuke.Library.sln) located inside C:\DotNetNuke\Libray (for a "classic" install). From the solution explorer, expand Components then Users. Open the file UserInfo.vb. Go to the line number 120 and replace the previous regex by this one: \b[a-zA-Z0-9._%\-+']+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}\b

Rebuild the solution and your problem will be solved!

In fact, there is three bugs in this expression (corrected in red above). The two "\" because the character "-" have a different signification inside brakets and the "6" at the end. This last correction because the ICANN has just accepted new TLD like .museum and .travels which contain 6 characters.

Gilles

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