On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:57:45AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Randal L.
> Schwartz<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Clemens" == Clemens Schwaighofer <clemens_schwaighofer@e-gra.co.jp> writes:
> >
> > Clemens> Just in my opinion, this regex is completely too large. For basic
> > Clemens> validating something like:
> > Clemens>
^[A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+-\/=?^_`{|}~][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+-\/=?^_`{|}~\.]{0,63}@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,})*\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4}){1}$
> > Clemens> works very well
> >
> > Fails on ".mobile" TLD. Has a pointless {1} in it, which does
> > absolutely nothing, providing that the creator of the regex was already
> > missing a few clues.
>
> Remonds me of the saying that for every complex problem there is a
> simple, elegant and incorrect solution.
That's from H. L. Mencken.
For every complex problem, there is an answer which is clear,
simple, and wrong.
Cheers,
David.
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