Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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John H - Feb 26, 2003 4:22:25 pm PST #3252 of 10000

Fair enough if it was manual manual. But if there was some kind of programmatic "update users set update_time = 5 where update_time < 5" then something went wrong with it, I'd say.


Jon B. - Feb 26, 2003 5:28:00 pm PST #3253 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

what happens if one of the vars contains a dot itself? I'm sure I'm barking up the wrong tree but it could explain it.

No idea, but as Elena pointed out, it's not just dots so I don't think that's it.


§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 5:35:28 pm PST #3254 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

John, I think it's the regexp:

"/^([a-z ]*^<)?([a-z0-9._-])+@([a-z0-9.-])+(\\.)([a-z]{2,4})(>)?$/i"

for checking a valid e-mail address that's choking on name punctuation.


John H - Feb 26, 2003 5:45:54 pm PST #3255 of 10000

Oh, OK, that makes sense, but why is that checking people's names -- because we're doing them in the form:

John H <johnh@blah.com>

or something?

So just chuck out the nice bit and just reduce it to the bare address is the quick solution.


§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 5:47:54 pm PST #3256 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes, that's what we're checking.

I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though. Just the other modules that'll need to be changed.


John H - Feb 26, 2003 6:01:51 pm PST #3257 of 10000

I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though.

Oh I didn't even look at it properly, I see the problem. It's designed to include optional non-email text.

Easy peasy:

[a-z ]

at the start is "a sequence of letters or spaces" so it should be enough just to put in

[a-z.' -]

which I just tested, and matches

P-M.M' Marcontell

which contains all the possible punctuation in people's names, I think.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 7:34:17 pm PST #3258 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

(There's the underscore....)


John H - Feb 26, 2003 7:48:50 pm PST #3259 of 10000

Who has an underscore in their name?

But yeah, if that's an issue, put that in between the brackets as well. Does anyone have a number in their name?

If they do, then maybe we want

[\\w .'-]

which will match that well-known Buffista

p.m-m'm_ m4rc0nt3ll

because the \\w includes all letters, numbers and the underscore.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 8:00:37 pm PST #3260 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Who has an underscore in their name?

Jenny_G comes to mind.

I mean, really, there's no limit to the punctuation, isn't there? Didn't a /mieskie register (and get booted, but, yeah, well)? Someone could register with an asterisk. Maybe someone has.


P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:10:28 pm PST #3261 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Spawn1, DCM1101 (Paul's user name), and a couple others I think use numbers. Anyone with ~? I know they were popular before WX let you lc your name without them.