On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Laurie Alvey <truk...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> > I've noticed that not all of the regex patterns contain "&" (ampersand). > According to Wikipaedia (and the standards mentioned therein), ampersands > are allowed. Also, not all email servers have adopted the full standard > (just bits that suit them) and so it seems a definitive pattern is probably > impossible. There are many patterns that cannot be correctly expressed in regular expressions. This article does a fine job of pointing out that email addresses are one of those things: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html Another place where regex shouldn't be used (but sadly often is) is HTML. Arguably the best answer ever posted to Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tldvatxlnytryu7+r2tksrxhc0ajlq5v+j-nwkr5p...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
