on 1/31/00 3:13 PM, Derek J. Balling at dredd@megacity.org wrote: > At 06:08 PM 1/31/00 +0000, Adam Sampson wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:23:03PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: >>> qr/[\w\.\*\-\+]+\@(?:[\w.-]+\.)+[\w-]+/; >> >> There's a guy who posts on Slashdot with the email address "t@cx" (he works >> for the Christmas Island NIC, apparently). >> >> -- >> >> Adam Sampson >> azz@gnu.org >> > For the record, I haven't been following this too closely, but referencing > the Owl Book, (Mastering Regular Expressions) pp. 313-316 might be > worthwhile. Jeff came up with a regex that matches the "spec" e-mail > address (and would match t@cx appropriately), that is 6598 bytes long. (or > spans several pages in a more "readable" format *G*) > > D > pmfji, but... is there some reason no one has suggested using Email::Valid? -- @---------------------------@-------------------------@ | Michael Budash | mailto:mbudash@wcws.com | | World Class Web Sites | http://www.wcws.com | | | 800 844 4434 | | Custom CGI Scripts | 480 461 9765 | | Perl PHP MySQL JavaScript | 480 461 9312 (fax) | @---------------------------@-------------------------@ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe