On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:20:10 +0300
Yosef Levy <yosi.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-07-10 21:30 GMT+03:00 Sunita Pradhan
> <sunita.pradhan.2...@hotmail.com>:
>
> > I want to write a script which will verify a valid email address .
> > Could anybody give some ideas , how to write a pattern for this ?
> \b[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+\.\w{2,4}\b
> This was taken from:
> http://www.regexr.com/
And is hopelessly naive, and will reject lots of perfectly valid email
addresses. For instance, there are lots of new TLDs these days longer
than 4 characters - .ninja, .museum, .report, .services, .vision, etc
etc etc.
It would also match e.g. --a...@--.abcd' and lots of other completely
invalid addresses.
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