•Re: Poor man's email address validation function

That's utterly and completely wrong with respect to "forbidden characters". For example, it invalidates any email address that has a gatewayed "local part" that contains a foreign (non RFC822) address, or addresses that I use to keep mail from getting scraped. For example, my fund responder is no longer fund@stonehenge.com, but fund*@stonehenge.com, and you've just ruled that address out.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^2: Poor man's email address validation function by Jorge_de_Burgos (Beadle) on Jun 27, 2004 at 09:56 UTC
Thanks Randal for your comments. Can you show me an example of an email address that has a gatewayed local part that contains a foreign (non RFC822) address? I just cannot figure out what that looks like.	[reply]
Re^3: Poor man's email address validation function by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2004 at 10:20 UTC
fund*@stonehenge.com	[reply]
Re^3: Poor man's email address validation function by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 28, 2004 at 16:57 UTC
Or my e-mail address: `gellyfish.com!jns@localhost` ;-) /J\	[reply] [d/l]