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We have a Desktop Automation that needs to verify that an email address was entered.
What is the best approach to determine is a text field contains a valid email address?
Regex... or?
Hey @byrnep
Don't know about regex in PAD, but found an old post which contains email validation.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Text-input-email-validation/td-p/729947
Try using the below action to see if it covers all types of email addresses. If not then Regex would be a good option.
Tried 2 samples of .com and .co.uk and both worked well.
If the RecognisedEntities comes out blank then there is no email detected.
Good suggestion! However I ended up going with the Reg Ex. I found it a bit cleaner, but in essence checking for the row count of the Recognize Text could be used the same way.
True, and in fact in the code-behind PAD must be using something like a regex and presenting to us in a easy-to-use readymade action.
Yes, it does like like that control is a 'friendly wrapper'. Regex is not exactly friendly!
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