From: Mike Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T05:53:53+09:00
Subject: Re: common regular expressions

> Has anyone compiled a collection of 'common' regular expression
> patterns.  For example:
>
> - valid email addresses


To be strictly pedantic, I don't think there is such a thing.  For the truly
adventurous, consider bang-paths, %'s and the like which have all been valid at
one point or another.  There was a big writeup/FAQ in the perl domain about this
very subject.