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I am using Regex to validate email address because I need to prevent users from using free email accounts such as gmail or outlook and ... .
I have the following and it works fine:

^\b[\w\.-]+@((?!gmail|outlook|hotmail).)[\w\.-]+\.\w{2,4}\b$

The problem is that with the above Regex users can register with abc@GMAIL.com. The above Regex is not case sensitive.
When I test the following line in Regex tested it works but it doesn't work in Chronoform:

^\b[\w\.-]+@((?!(?i)gmail|outlook|hotmail).)[\w\.-]+\.\w{2,4}\b$

I'm not sure why the above line doesn't work in CF 6.
Thanks

Hi omidhz,
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The simplest fix is probably to change the email address to all lower case before checking - though the \i flag will usually make the check case-insensitive.
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Bob
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PS There are many genuine users who have GMail or other similar addresses - are you certain that you want to block them?

Thank you for your reply. I tried to change the characters to lower case, but I can't figure out how. Can you help, please?
Thanks

Hi omidhz,
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I think using PHP action with something like this should work
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<?php
$this->data('email') = strtolower($this->data('email'));
?>
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Bob

Thanks Bob,
When I add

$this->data('email') = strtolower($this->data('email'));

to the php in the actions of the page that has the email field, I get error 500.

No.

$this->data('email', strtolower($this->data('email')), true);

Thank you healyhatman.
Your line does not give error message. But it is not doing what I wanted.
Let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
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On my page 3 of the form, I have a field called email, I'm using the Regex posted above to block gmail and other free emils listed. I add a php in action of page 3 and your code there. When users type in their email, it still shows uppercase as they type and are still able to register with me@GMAIL.com.
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Thanks again for your reply.

Hi omidzh,
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The code need to be in the form event that Page 3 submits to.
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Bob