<A target="_blank" href="http://www.falsepositives.com/index.php/2009/09/17/validating-url-and-email-addresses-with-regexp-in-lotus-notes/">Apparently Ian Irving figured this method out</A> once before then forgot how to do it. This time he's written up his isValidateURL and isValidateEmailAddress Regular Expression (or regexp ) routines and posted them so he can find them again.