You have to pick a pattern for validation. See Message ID: 886271

>thank for the reply howerver I put the following code in the valid procedure, but everytime I am getting invalid input
>as example and input in the field xxxxx@yyyy.com and still getting invalid input maybe I missed something
>Thank you
>
>LPARAMETERS tcEmailAddr
>LOCAL loRegExp
>loRegExp = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
>loRegExp.IgnoreCase = .T.
>loRegExp.Pattern = '< Email Validation pattern you prefer here >'
>RETURN loRegExp.Test(tcEmailAddr)