# Regex or similar?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regex-or-similar/213826>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 23, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regex-or-similar/213826 "2007-01-23T16:16:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![duncanhall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@duncanhall](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/duncanhall)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regex-or-similar/213826/1 "2007-01-23T16:16:51Z")

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So as far as my searching skills will allow, there simply isn’t any support for regular expressions in AS2. Does anyone have any experience / know of any tutorials that can achieve a similar effect? I don’t need anything too complex - just some email validation and simple character checking.