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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:42:52 -0700
On 03/12/2012 02:32 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Whenever I've built code to check someone's email address on a form, I always just looked for the following: 1. matches ^[^@]+@[A-Za-z0-0\-\.]+[A-Za-z]$ 2. The component to the right of the @ sign returns at least one A, AAAA, or MX record. If it passed those two checks, I figured that was about as good as I could do without resorting to one of the following: 1. An incomprehensible and unmaintainable regex as the one above 2. Actually attempting delivery to said address Owen
"'I know, I'll use a regular expression!' now you have two problems." Mike
Current thread:
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills, (continued)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Alain Hebert (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Randy (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Mark Andrews (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 06)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Lamar Owen (Mar 08)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 08)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Tei (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Michael Thomas (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Joe Greco (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Mark Andrews (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Joe Greco (Mar 13)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jimmy Hess (Mar 16)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Aled Morris (Mar 13)