Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >Absolutely not. It rejects <fred&[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is a perfectly >valid email address. (Try it, you'll get my autoresponder.)
>Google for "RFC 822" and "RFC 2822" to see the *real* rules. An >actual regex for an email address is rather large. there's an extended example in appendix b of _Mastering Regular Expressions_ from O'Reilly. the appendix suggests the regex may be available online at jeffery friedl's home page. here's the url, but i've not gone excavating for the regex. http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/jfriedl.html richard ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
