Posted by Marcus Bointon on 08/03/05 17:57

On 2 Aug 2005, at 15:12, Robin Vickery wrote:

> I don't suppose this is the place for a rant about the futility of
> checking email addresses with a regexp?

Though I will agree with you to some extent, I've had quite a lot of
success with this, which is pretty thorough:

^(?:[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+\.)*[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\-
\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+@(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!\.)){0,61}
[a-zA-Z0-9]?\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!$)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?)|
(?:\[(?:(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]
\d|25[0-5])\]))$

Which I got from here:

http://www.hexillion.com/samples/#Regex

Marcus
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