On 11/06/2016 05:09, Bill Cole wrote:
So, you thought validating email addresses was a problem demanding a
solution? And you "solved" it with a regular expression?
Congratulations on now having 2 problems. They should be very happy
together.
The regex I quoted was out of context to the problem and completely
unrelated (sorry if you feel so confused with that). It is actually for
another software project (a mail server) that, being a mail server, must
ensure email addresses are valid. I quoted the regexp in context of
showing my point about how 'squiggly' they can be and that I am able to
read them.....to a point. (I was proud because 'googling' around for a
regex email address validator string shows some VERY suspicious and
extortionately,seemingly unnecessarily, long offerings. So I had a go
myself).
