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I think this proves one thing...

Given enough monkeys with typewriters, you will, in fact, not
get Shakespeare, but, instead, regular expressions for Shakespeare's
email address.

Owen

On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:

> On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Tei wrote:
>> 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])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
>> 
>> 
> It's supposedly a lot harder than that.  Try this for strict RFC822 compliance (from http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html):
> 
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> +|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\
> .(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z
> |(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*\>(?:(
> ?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*)?;\s*)
> 
> Paul

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