From: Chad Perrin Date: 2006-01-05T06:30:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Email Address Regex [was Re: silly regex question] On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:27:48AM +0900, Bill Kelly wrote: > From: "Jacob Fugal" > > > >I figure people aren't going to type the "John > >Doe " format into a form > > In my experience, a certain percentage do. I'm guessing > it might be because they copied their email address out > of something like Outlook Express, and pasted it into the > form. (OE will display "John Doe" as a hyperlink, which if > selected and copied turns into "John Doe " > in the clipboard.) It's possible that someone might copy and paste something in that format from a number of other, non-Windows email clients, too -- though it's more difficult to do so by accident, since generally clients like mutt won't drop more stuff into your copy/paste buffer than you actually highlighted. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.