Postby davidmellow » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:31 am
Hi drdanyo, the specific use we might have had for this didn't seem to warrant pursuing it at the time (it was simply something, validating format of email addresses typed in by users, that I probably would have done if Jade had its own regex engine).
Out of curiosity last night I did create a .NET assembly exposing a couple of very trivial methods to validate a match, imported it into JAde and it seemed to work fine. (The relevant namespace is System.Text.RegularExpressions in the System.dll assembly).
An aside, googling for patterns to validate email addresses in itself proved interesting, as to the bewildering raft of solutions people had come up with and tested, some of them surprisingly complex. It was not as trivial as I may have thought, depending on the level of accuracy one requires.