Programmers with network engineering skills

Mon Mar 12 21:12:51 UTC 2012

2012/3/12 Tei <oscar.vives at gmail.com>

> On 12 March 2012 09:59, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey!
> >
> > On 3/8/12 8:24 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >> On Monday, March 05, 2012 09:36:41 PM Jimmy Hess wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>    (16)  The default gateway's IP address is always 192.168.0.1
> >>>    (17) The user portion of E-mail addresses never contain special
> >>> characters like  "-" "+"  "$"   "~"  "."  ",", "[",  "]"
> > I've just had my ' xx AT cagnazzo.name' email address rejected by a web
> > form saying that 'it is not a valid email address'. So I guess point
> > (17) can be extended to say that 'no email address shall end in anything
> > different that .com, .net or the local ccTLD'
> >
> > :=)
> >
> > Carlos
>
>
> Yea, I don't even know how programmers can get that wrong.  The regex
> is not even hard or anything.
>
>
>
> (?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
>
>
I bet it's even harder without the use of a search engine.