Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Rebbert <markus(dot)rebbert(at)freenet(dot)de> writes:

Markus> Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 11:17 -0400 schrieb Brad Nicholson:
>> Does anybody have regular expression handy to verfiy email addresses?

Markus> ^([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+[.]?){1,}[a-zA-Z0-9-]*+\.){1,}[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

Markus> but i don't think, it's really complete.

Absolutely not. It rejects <fred&barney(at)stonehenge(dot)com> which is a perfectly
valid email address. (Try it, you'll get my autoresponder.)

Google for "RFC 822" and "RFC 2822" to see the *real* rules. An
actual regex for an email address is rather large.

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