On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Alan Thew wrote:
> Hotmail says:
>
> "2. We do not allow numeric characters at the beginning of an email
> address. Any Hotmail Login Name beginning with a NUMERIC character is a
> forgery."
>
> Does anyone have an existing regex that does this ?
^\d
or if you want to check the whole address
^\d[^@]*@hotmail\.com$
Remember if you put this in double quotes, you have to escape the
backslashes, and if you put it in a string which is expanded, you have
to escape the backslashes and the dollar.
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