NAME
EAV::XS - Email Address Validator
SYNOPSIS
use EAV::XS;
my $eav = EAV::XS->new();
if ($eav->is_email ('valid@example.com')) {
print "This is a valid email address.\n";
} else {
printf "The email address is not valid: %s\n",
$eav->get_error();
}DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this module is a validation of the specified Email Address.
The core part of the module is written in C and can be found here.
The module conforms to:
RFC 822 - allows control characters.
RFC 5321 - does not allow any control characters.
RFC 5322 - allows some control characters and not allows SPACE and TAB characters without quoted-pairs.
RFC 6531 and RFC 20. Allows Internationalized Email Addresses encoded in UTF-8, RFC 3629.
Currently, this mode based on RFC 5321 and disallow next characters, as described in RFC 20:
`,#,^,{,},~and|. They must be in double-quotes.
The default behavior of the module also includes the check of:
Special and Reserved domains as mentioned in RFC 6761
FQDN - if the domain contains only alias and it is not a special or reserved domain, then the result is negative, that is, such an email address is considered as invalid.
DEPENDENCIES
You have to install one of IDN libraries on your choice:
When run Makefile.PL, you will be asked to configure EAV::XS and at this stage you may select the IDN library to build with.
METHODS
$eav = new ( [%options] )
Creates a new EAV::XS object, if something goes wrong a message will be thrown via croak().
Possible options includes:
rfc - use this RFC specification. Possible values are: RFC822, RFC5321, RFC5322 or RFC6531. Default is RFC6531.
tld_check - enable or disable TLD check. Also, this controls FQDN check. Enabled by default.
allow_tld - list of TLD types which considered be good. You have to specify this list via logical OR ("|"). Information about possible values described below in section "TLD INFORMATION".
Default value is: TLD_COUNTRY_CODE | TLD_GENERIC | TLD_GENERIC_RESTRICTED | TLD_INFRASTRUCTURE | TLD_SPONSORED | TLD_SPECIAL.
$yes_no = is_email ( $email )
Validates the specified email. Returns true if the email is valid, otherwise returns false.
$error_message = get_error ()
Returns an error message for the last email address tested by is_email() method.
TLD INFORMATION
The current list of all TLDs can be found on IANA Root Zone Database website.
The allow_tld option accepts the next values:
TLD_NOT_ASSIGNED - allow not assigned TLDs. On IANA website they are listed as "Not assigned" in the "Sponsoring Organisation" field.
TLD_COUNTRY_CODE - allow county-code TLDs.
TLD_GENERIC - allow generic TLDs.
TLD_GENERIC_RESTRICTED - allow generic-restricted TLDs.
TLD_INFRASTRUCTURE - allow infrastructure TLDs.
TLD_SPONSORED - allow sponsored TLDs.
TLD_TEST - allow test TLDs.
TLD_SPECIAL - allow Special & Restricted TLDs. See RFC 2606, RFC 6761 and RFC 7686 for details.
Currently, this includes the next TLDs: "test.", "invalid.", "localhost.", "example.", "onion." and also Second Level Domains, such as, "example.com.", "example.net." and "example.org.".
For instance, to allow only country-code and generic TLDs you have to write this:
my $eav = EAV::XS->new(
allow_tld => EAV::XS::TLD_COUNTRY_CODE | EAV::XS::TLD_GENERIC
);
if (not $eav->is_email ('test@example.biz')) {
print ".biz is generic-restricted TLD and not allowed.\n";
}SEE ALSO
References:
Other implementations:
AUTHOR
Vitaliy V. Tokarev, <vitaliy.tokarev@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2017 Vitaliy V. Tokarev
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