Ignore hyperlink from being flagged as false pattern

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I have a script that checks my outgoing email for any credit card number that are unmasked. However, if an embedded hyperlink coincidentally have the same format with the credit cards format that I am trying to filter, it flags it down and prevents me from sending the email. I want it to be able to determine if the pattern is within a hyperlink or not and perform its check before sending the email. Can someone advice on how I go about this? Am just a newbie with outlook vba so any help will be much appreciated. I'm attaching my script here.
 

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You could check the character before and after the found code - if its not an EOL, space, or period, its more likely a url. You can do it using regex, not sure you can do it using like.

You could try adding a space after the last number in the array - but that only works if it is in the middle of a sentence but could cut down on the number of false alarms. I would probably do another IF statement if there is a match to the number string - the second one will check for a space before or after (4 in the array).
 
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You could check the character before and after the found code - if its not an EOL, space, or period, its more likely a url. You can do it using regex, not sure you can do it using like.

You could try adding a space after the last number in the array - but that only works if it is in the middle of a sentence but could cut down on the number of false alarms. I would probably do another IF statement if there is a match to the number string - the second one will check for a space before or after (4 in the array).
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Hi Dianne,

I've changed the pattern checking using regex instead of like and have something like this and is working.


With Reg1
.pattern = "(\d{16}|\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}|\d{4}.\d{4}.\d{4}.\d{4}|\d{4} \d{4} \d{4} \d{4})"
.Global = True
End With

However, I did find that if there is a pattern that matches 16 digits and there are other subsequent digits, it still flags instead of allowing it to be sent. sample is 11112222333344445555.
 
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