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[Jeff]

Agreed...six thousand characters to check an email address seems
excessive.

Jeff Siegel

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of Chris Shiflett
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:42 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Sneaking in unwanted characters


--- Jeff <jsiegel1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> "The most comprehensive regular expression currently available for
> testing if an email address is valid was published in Mastering
Regular
> Expressions from O'Reilly Publishing. It appears on page 316 and
weighs
> in at more than six thousand characters...."
> 
> I'm sure there's a better way.

Most of the RFCs either have example regular expressions or a very
specific
grammar that can be used to build one. I've seen that one in the back of
the
O'Reilly book, and my instinct tells me it shouldn't have to be that
complicated. :-)

Chris

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