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rude word checker

Hi

I'm creating a website where the user can invent their own screen name. I want to make sure they don't come up with one containing swear words. can you advise how i would create a dictionary (or something) of rude words and name sure the screen name does not contain them.

In a screen name, what characters should i allow and disallow. I know underscores are useful but what about other characters, should i disallow them for simplicity?

thanks
andrea

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gangwisch

oh yeah another comment:
change
if instr(username,item)>0 then return true
to
if instr(username.tolower,item)>0 then return true

and change all your curse words in the arraylist to lowercase

sorry about that

JeffvClayton

You could just type all your swear words in to a text file and use instr() function to check if any word in the file matches the login

andieje

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Thanks for your replies

Jeff, how would i do that option. Would i have one swear word per line? Could you give me some example code? I hanvet done much file manipulation.

thanks
andrea

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JeffvClayton

Hope this enough to get you going before tomorrow

Jeff

andieje

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THANKS a lot