On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:11, Randal L. Schwartz<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Lopes <lopes80andre@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Andre> I'm developing a function with some checks, for example... to check if the
> Andre> e-mail is valid or not.
>
> How are you hoping to do this? The regex to validate an email
> address syntactically is pretty large:
>
> http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
>
> And no, I'm not kidding. If your regex is smaller than that, you aren't
> validating email... you're validating something "kinda like email".
Just in my opinion, this regex is completely too large. For basic
validating something like:
^[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}$
works very well
> For example, <fred&barney@stonehenge.com> is a valid email address. (Go
> ahead, try it... it has an autoresponder.)
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