Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression
Date: 2005-09-07 15:44:09
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Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> writes:

> Does anybody have regular expression handy to verfiy email addresses?

It's harder than you think. For one that handles it in fairly full
generality, see Jeffrey Friedl's book _Mastering Reguar Expressions_.
The regex he comes up with is quite a beast.

-Doug

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