Re: Re: Email validation

From: Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:06:55 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Email validation
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Manuel Lemos wrote: > The following classes use this validation regular expression string. It > does not exclude some invalid addresses but includes all valid addresses. > > > "^([-!#\$%&'*+./0-9=?A-Z^_a-z{|}~?])+@([-!#\$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Z^_a-z{|}~?]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\$" It doesn't, as far as I can tell, allow this valid address: webmaster@musedoma.museum And what's with all the nonsense characters in the domain name portion? Only letters, numbers, hyphen, and period are allowed after the @ sign. miguel

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