At 11:52 -0500 2002.03.08, James Linden Rose, III wrote: >How does this do as a rough cut email validity test???
Not very well, for two reasons. First, email "validity" is not determined by how well-formed it is, but also whether or not it exists, is replyable, etc. You are only checking well-formedness. It may catch a certain large percentage, but will also surely fail on many valid addresses. See the Email::Valid module, which should catch all properly formed email addresses, and reject all improperly formed ones, except for email addresses with nested comments. It essentially has a very complex regex to determine if an email address conforms to the form specified in RFC 822 (again, not including nested comments). -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
