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Email with Display Name

Email address with a display name (RFC 5322 mailbox format). Format: "Display Name" <local@domain> or Display Name <local@domain>. Commonly used in email headers and contact lists.

Email with Display Name

identity.person.email_display

Email address with a display name (RFC 5322 mailbox format). Format: "Display Name" <local@domain> or Display Name <local@domain>. Commonly used in email headers and contact lists.

Domain
identity
Category
person
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i ""John Doe" <john@example.com>"
→ identity.person.email_display

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('"John Doe" <john@example.com>');
-- → 'identity.person.email_display'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'identity.person.email_display';

Struct Expansion

Expression
display_name: REGEXP_EXTRACT({col}, '^"?([^"<>]+?)"?\s*<')
email: REGEXP_EXTRACT({col}, '<([^>]+)>')

JSON Schema

finetype schema identity.person.email_display
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/identity.person.email_display",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Email address with a display name (RFC 5322 mailbox format). Format: \"Display Name\" <local@domain> or Display Name <local@domain>. Commonly used in email headers and contact lists.",
  "examples": [
    "\"John Doe\" <john@example.com>",
    "Jane Smith <jane@corp.com>",
    "\"Alice B. Johnson\" <alice.j@company.org>",
    "Support Team <support@example.com>"
  ],
  "maxLength": 300,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\"?[^\"<>]+\"?\\s*<[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\\-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}>$",
  "title": "Email with Display Name",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-pii": true,
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

"John Doe" <john@example.com>Jane Smith <jane@corp.com>"Alice B. Johnson" <alice.j@company.org>Support Team <support@example.com>

Aliases

mailboxemail_with_name

Type Registry