Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/13/06 12:17
John Dunlop wrote:
> Koncept:
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>>[Cerebral Believer:]
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>>>Is this a good ereg statement?
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> No. The pattern tries to weed out malformed e-mail addresses but fails
> because it is too restrictive. A regular expression to match all
> well-formed e-mail addresses would be complex, since in addition to the
> productions you would need to include from RFC2822, the pattern would
> involve recursion of a subpattern if it was to allow comments.
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>>Try this:
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> A prime bogosity indicator on Usenet.
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I did see a regex which would handle all possible addresses. Don't
remember where I saw it off hand, but it was around 6500 chars long.
Obviously it's not easy to validate email addresses!
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