Posted by Bram on September 30, 2007
In Reply to Domain Name validation posted by devolution on
September 18, 2007
: I'm trying to work out a Domain Name validation function for use in a utility I'm
writing.
: I'm working primarily with UK domains (.co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk) and the general name rules
are as follows:
: * Characters allowed: A-Z, 0-9 and hyphens
: * No hyphens at start or end of domain
: * Domain must be at least 2 characters
: Examples of valid domains:
: music.co.uk, blah.org.uk, we-3.me.uk
: Examples of invalid domains:
: x.co.uk, -ssd.org.uk, moneyŁ.me.uk
: I'm looking to put together a function to validate a string to
see if it is a valid domain name. Plus I wish to know if it is a domain with extension (eg: music.co.uk)
or just the 'keyword' (eg: music).
Nice Delphi coding puzzle, I enjoyed solving it ;)
Here is my code:
const Extens: array[0..2] of string = ('co.uk', 'org.uk', 'me.uk'); function IsKeyword(S: string): Boolean; begin Result := Pos('.', S) = 0; end; function IsValid(S: string): Boolean; var FirstPart, Ext: string; i: integer; begin if IsKeyword(S) then FirstPart := S else FirstPart := Copy(S, 1, Pos('.', S) - 1); Result := (Length(FirstPart) > 1) and (FirstPart[1] '-') and (FirstPart[Length(FirstPart)] '-'); if Result then for i := 1 to Length(FirstPart) do begin Result := FirstPart[i] in ['A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9', '-']; if not Result then break; end; if Result and (not IsKeyword(S)) then begin Ext := LowerCase(Copy(S, Pos('.', S) + 1, Length(S))); for i := Low(Extens) to High(Extens) do begin Result := Ext = LowerCase(Extens[i]); if Result then break; end; end; end;
Succes with the source code!
Bram