From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-11-27T06:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern match to fail if two periods in a row

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so then only trying to match:

/\w+\.?\w*/

should do

2009/11/26 Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com>

>
> >>> "abc..def" !~ /\.\./
> =>> false
>
> I don't think that
>  "abc..def" !~ /\.\./
> is a regular expression.
>
>   /\.\./
> is a regular expression.
>
>
> Basically ... I need something that will work in a Rails
> validates_format_of
>
>  # Reject if the email address has two periods in a row
>  validates_format_of     :email,
>                        # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address
>                        :with => ????,
>                        :message => 'invalid email format'
>
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