Posted by Tim Roberts on 09/27/05 08:41

John Dunlop <usenet+2004@john.dunlop.name> wrote:

>Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey Friedl's book, "Mastering Regular Expressions" contains a complete
>> regular expression which matches all valid RFC 822 e-mail addresses. It is
>> more than 6,500 characters long.
>
>Interesting. I don't have his book, but is that the pattern
>Email::Valid uses?
>
>http://search.cpan.org/src/MAURICE/Email-Valid-0.15/Valid.pm

That's the one. He credits Friedl in the code.

The Friedl book is actually quite good. Some people think the subject
could be adequately covered in a 3-page man page, but Friedl covers the
tricks, ins, and outs of many of the popular regular expression engines. I
recommend it.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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