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Regular Expression Details

Title	Test Find Pattern Title
Expression	^(?:[\w]+[\&\-_\.])+@(?:(?:[\w]+[\-_\.])\.(?:[a-zA-Z]{2,}?))$
Description	This validates an email address and only an email address. None of the <email> stuff, just [email protected]. Comments are more then welcome.
Matches	[email protected]
Non-Matches	[email protected] \| [email protected]
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. netFiends.com
Source	netFiends.com
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Title: STOP using regex to validate email
Name: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 11/20/2005 5:53:40 PM
Comment:
This fails on fred*[email protected], for example. If you don't know RFC822 (or haven't even heard of RFC822), DO NOT WRITE EMAIL VALIDATION REGEXEN. THEY ARE WRONG.

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