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Email Validations
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^([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*(\.{0,1})?[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)*(\.{0,1})@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(\.([a-zA-Z]{2,10}))(\.([a-zA-Z]{2,10}))?(\.([a-zA-Z]{2,10}))?))[\s]*$ |
| Description |
Validates almost all email addresses. Tested and running fine on a major web portal |
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Gauri Karlekar
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Title: WRONG WRONG WRONG
Name: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 8/28/2008 5:49:49 AM
Comment:
The author has not seen RFC822 or RFC2822, and therefore this email validator is wrong. Hint: if your regex for validating email is less than about 2000 characters, you're not validating actual email addresses... just your ignorant idea of email addresses.
