* rbt wrote: > Is it possible to write an re that _only_ matches email addresses?
No. The only way to check if the matched thing is a mail address is to send a mail and ask the supposed receiver whether he got it. The grammar in RFC 2822 nearly matches anything with an @ in it. So, how accurate your regex needs to be depends heavily on the context of the usage. For example, my suggestion for web form checkers is always to just look for an @ char and do the rest using the human component. nd -- Already I've seen people (really!) write web URLs in the form: http:\\some.site.somewhere [...] How soon until greengrocers start writing "apples $1\pound" or something? -- Joona I Palaste in clc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
