Hi, jdalbec. Thanks for replying.

Please use <code> tags around Perl code so it displays correctly.

Actually I used, but since the <code> tags are inside a <ol> tag maybe they aren't displaying correctly...

You may want to use (?: ... ) for grouping so you don't get a bunch of assignments to $1, $2, etc.

True, thanks for pointing this out.

Also {1} is redundant.

Also true. Thanks again, but...

In several cases your comments don't match what the regexp is doing.

Actually I've made a lot of testing and apparently it is... Could you clarify this part a little? I'm curious.

In 2. the (\.)+ allows two or more dots in a row. I think you probably just want to drop the + (and the redundant parentheses).

and

In 3. you have almost the same problem. Try changing * to ? unless you mean to allow multiple dashes/underscores in a row.

Actually I want to allow multiple dots, dashes and underscores since 'er.galvao.abbott@somedomain.com' or 'er_galvao_abbott@somedomain.com' are valid addresses.

In 9. I think you want (?:\.(?:[a-z0-9]){2,})*. I'm leaving the * (even though you said "possibly") since I think you can have any number of domain levels in a FQDN.

Thanks, I'll give this chunk a try and see what happens.

Thanks a lot for your reply,


Er Galvão Abbott
www.galvao.eti.br
Porto Alegre Perl Mongers

In reply to Re^2: Please evaluate: RegEx for validating e-mail addresses by DaWolf
in thread Please evaluate: RegEx for validating e-mail addresses by DaWolf

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