Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephane Bortzmeyer
Subject Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses
Date
Msg-id 20020719150211.GA24421@nic.fr
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In response to Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses  (Josh Jore <josh@greentechnologist.org>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:11:43AM -0500,
 Josh Jore <josh@greentechnologist.org> wrote
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> Remember to allow quotes and spaces as well. This is a valid address (no,
> not that I actually defined it as an alias):
>
> "Josh Jore"@greentechnologist.org

Yes, but to parse such addresses (not just to allow blindly spaces and
quotes in any order), regexps are not sufficient (hence my initial
request for a type, with a real parser).

Checking that an email address is actually RFC 2822 is far from a
trivial task...


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