Thanks guys, It took me while but I figured it out... mostly i was confuse
with {2,5}. because I thought it should be {2,3} since i have never seen a
domain address with 5 characters.On 10/23/07, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes,this is a regex for email matching,but may be broken under some cases. > > The username part can be all a-z,A-Z,0-9, "-", "." and "_" characters. > The first tld part (before the ".") take the same character range as > username. > the last tld part (after the ".") can be a-z and A-Z only,and the > length is from 2 to 5. > > In fact this is not an exact regex for email address,b/c it also match > the cases below: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and even, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > There is an article on internet "How to Find or Validate an Email > Address". > I didn't check it carefully,but just a reference for you. > http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html > > > On 10/24/07, newBee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5})$ > > > > Its look like an email address... is it..? it will be a great help if > > some one could give a breakdown on the this regex. > > > > thanks in advance... > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > > > > > -- Anuradha Uduwage
