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function validateemail_nonrequired(email) 
	{
email = Trim(email)
		if (email != '')		
			{ //only validate if not blank
		// IF There is a '.' in it  AND   the dot comes after the @ symbol  AND    there is an @ symbol and it is not the first character(indexOf returns 0 if not in string)			
			if ((email.indexOf('.') != -1 && email.lastIndexOf('.') > email.indexOf('@')) && email.indexOf('@') > 0 )
				{		
					return true;						
				}	
					else
				{		
					alert("Please enter a valid email address");
					return false;				
				}
			}
		else
			{
				return true;						
			}
	}


//Fuctions to mimmick LTrim,  RTrim, and Trim...

function LTrim(str)
{
        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;
}

function RTrim(str)

{
        // 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;
}





        function Trim(str)
        {
                return RTrim(LTrim(str));
        }

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