[ale] Code/logic collection question

[oloryn at benshome.net (Ben Coleman)]

4/23/2001 6:56:44 PM, Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

>BTW - what is the regular expression for a valid email address?

Actually, a fully-rfc822-compliant regex to validate email address format turns out to be humongous (see Appendix B of 'Mastering Regular 
Expressions' for an example).  If you've got a string that you want to validate is a correctly-formed email address, you're better off using the 
RFC::RFC822::Address module.  This may not (or may, depending on how you do the search) help you find email addresses within random 
text.

Ben

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