Re: RE: Email validation

Why does the email regex have to be so so long ? What makes the regex so complex that it takes 5000 odd characters to express ?

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Re: Re: RE: Email validation by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 09, 2001 at 17:28 UTC
Read RFC 822 - the one that defines a valid email address. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply]
Re: Re: RE: Email validation by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 09, 2001 at 21:04 UTC
Also check out Mastering Regular Expressions, which contains a very detailed step-by-step guide to having created this monster, and why all the steps are there. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]