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Hide Email Address From View

  • May 1, 2009
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We have clients that we have told not to post their email in a textarea form and they do it anyway.  Is there a way to find the email address in the textarea output (public view page) and then ******* or whatever their entire email address before and after the @17299028  We do not want any of the email showing.  Thanks in advance.

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    Correct answer craigkaminsky

    You could use a regular expression (where appropriate in the flow of your code) to locate an email address and replace it with the desired characters. Here's a sample:

    ReReplaceNoCase( originalString, "^[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+(\.[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+)*@([a-zA-Z_0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,7}$", "*********@******", "ALL" )

    This snippet should find any email addresses in the variable originalString and replace it with *********@******.

    Hope that helps!

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    craigkaminskyCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2009

    You could use a regular expression (where appropriate in the flow of your code) to locate an email address and replace it with the desired characters. Here's a sample:

    ReReplaceNoCase( originalString, "^[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+(\.[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+)*@([a-zA-Z_0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,7}$", "*********@******", "ALL" )

    This snippet should find any email addresses in the variable originalString and replace it with *********@******.

    Hope that helps!

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    May 1, 2009

    Thanks!  You rock!

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    May 1, 2009

    Hmmm....the code is still not finding the emails in the output.  Any ideas on why this would not work?  The output is just a paragraph of data submitted through a textarea form.

    #ReReplaceNoCase(data.comments,"^[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+(\.[a-zA-Z_0-9-'\+~]+)*@([a-zA-Z_0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,7}$", "*********@******", "ALL")#

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