//Fuctions to mimmick LTrim,  RTrim, and Trim...
//==================================================================
//LTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading spaces.
//==================================================================
function LTrim(str)
/*
        PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
        IN: str - the string we want to LTrim
*/
{
        var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

        var s = new String(str);

        if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
            // We have a string with leading blank(s)...

            var j=0, i = s.length;

            // Iterate from the far left of string until we
            // don't have any more whitespace...
            while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
                j++;


            // Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
            // character to the end of the string...
            s = s.substring(j, i);
        }

        return s;
}

//==================================================================
//RTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without trailing spaces.
//=================================================================//=
function RTrim(str)
/*
        PURPOSE: Remove trailing blanks from our string.
        IN: str - the string we want to RTrim

*/
{
        // We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
        // line feeds, etc.  Add anything else you want to
        // "trim" here in Whitespace
        var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

        var s = new String(str);

        if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
            // We have a string with trailing blank(s)...

            var i = s.length - 1;       // Get length of string

            // Iterate from the far right of string until we
            // don't have any more whitespace...
            while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
                i--;


            // Get the substring from the front of the string to
            // where the last non-whitespace character is...
            s = s.substring(0, i+1);
        }

        return s;
}

//=============================================================
//Trim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading or trailing spaces
//=============================================================
        function Trim(str)
        /*
                PURPOSE: Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
                IN: str - the string we want to Trim

                RETVAL: A Trimmed string!
        */
        {
                return RTrim(LTrim(str));
        }


function VerifyEmail(email) 
{
	invalidChars = " /:,;"
	if (email == "") {	// cannot be empty
	  //alert("Please enter your email address.");
	  return false
        }
	for (i=0; i<invalidChars.length; i++) 
	{	// does it contain any invalid characters?
		badChar = invalidChars.charAt(i)
		if (email.indexOf(badChar,0) > -1) 
		{
			return false
		}
  }
  atPos = email.indexOf("@",1)	// there must be one "@" symbol
  if (atPos == -1) 
  {
		return false
  }
  if (email.indexOf("@",atPos+1) != -1) 
  {	// and only one "@" symbol
		return false
  }
  periodPos = email.indexOf(".",atPos)
  if (periodPos == -1) 
  {			// and at least one "." after the "@"
		return false
  }
  if (periodPos+3 > email.length)	
  { // must be at least 2 characters after the "."
		return false
  }
  return true
}