From: claird@... (Cameron Laird)
Date: 2001-03-18T02:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12779] Re: email address regexp

In article <m18zm531s9.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>,
Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
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>The Perl regex to match an email address (or at least
>a useful subset of them) can be found many places,
>including
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>        http://www.foad.org/~abigail/Perl/url3.regex
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>which I include here to show that it's not a simple regex:
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There are several positive results to emphasize here:
1.  Regexps are great for some things, impossible
    for others, and ... clumsy for still others.
    e-mail addresses nicely demonstrate that the
    third category is non-empty.
2.  There *is* a standard for e-mail addresses.
3.  It's FAR easier to validate e-mail addresses
    correctly using mechanisms other than REs.

Presumably the Ruby community would welcome contribution
of a correct parseaddress method, and perhaps even incor-
porate it in larger MIME and e-mail packages.
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