in reply to Re^3: On Validating Email Addresses
in thread On Validating Email Addresses

Besdies tye's point below, I don't think it matters much in common usage of Email::Valid, anyway. I've only used it for validating form input, and I imagine this tends to be the most common case. How often do you type (Fname Lname) <addr@example.com> into a form? I always just type the address alone.

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Re^5: On Validating Email Addresses
by diotalevi (Canon) on Jan 05, 2005 at 19:25 UTC
    Ok, so you won't type that into a form. Your email client will happily give that string to me and its still subject to validity tests. Email::Valid should handle addresses as generated by backend systems and not just what people are likely to type into a text box.
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