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Since the contact information is free form, after the contact information has been obtained it will be necessary to parse it to extract the valid email address(es). The The module to do this should extract the userid before the @ symbol and the host name that follows the @ symbol. These should be validated to ensure the ID and name are correct. I believe the following regular expression can be used to check the hostname:
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$hostname=~/(([a-z0-9]+|([a-z0-9]+[-]+[a-z0-9]+))[.])+/
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Or look at http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx you may be able to find a more complete solution
The modification would be needed in checkdata_gif.pl. It may be simpler in many cases to clean up the formatting of the email addresses in NODEDETAILS.
Second step
Once this is done,the next step would be to automate testing so that if we have not been able to gather data from the site for the last 7 days (checkdata_gif.pl provides the number of adjacent days we have been unable to gather data from the site) or more then see if.
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