I may add that when I reached the point of having my 'AT cagnazzo.name'
address rejected by the form, I was already pretty angry because the
form had a sign, all written in UPPER CASE LETTERS, saying that the form
did not support other browsers than Internet Explorer.
:=)
C.
On 3/12/12 7:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I think this proves one thing...
>
> Given enough monkeys with typewriters, you will, in fact, not
> get Shakespeare, but, instead, regular expressions for Shakespeare's
> email address.
>
> Owen
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
>
>> On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Tei wrote:
>>> On 12 March 2012 09:59, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo<carlosm3...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hey!
>>>>
>>>> On 3/8/12 8:24 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, March 05, 2012 09:36:41 PM Jimmy Hess wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> (16) The default gateway's IP address is always 192.168.0.1
>>>>>> (17) The user portion of E-mail addresses never contain special
>>>>>> characters like "-" "+" "$" "~" "." ",", "[", "]"
>>>> I've just had my ' xx AT cagnazzo.name' email address rejected by a web
>>>> form saying that 'it is not a valid email address'. So I guess point
>>>> (17) can be extended to say that 'no email address shall end in anything
>>>> different that .com, .net or the local ccTLD'
>>>>
>>>> :=)
>>>>
>>>> Carlos
>>> Yea, I don't even know how programmers can get that wrong. The regex
>>> is not even hard or anything.
>>>
>>>
>>> (?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
>>>
>>>
>> It's supposedly a lot harder than that. Try this for strict RFC822
>> compliance (from http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html):
>>
>> (?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]
>> )+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]))*"(?:(?:
>> \r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+(?:(?:(
>> ?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\0
>> 31]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\
>> ](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+
>> (?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:
>> (?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*|(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z
>> |(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)
>> ?[ \t])*)*\<(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:@(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\
>> r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)
>> ?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]
>> )*))*(?:,@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> )(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]
>> )+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*))*)
>> *:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)?(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+
>> |\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]))*"(?:(?:\r
>> \n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:
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>> \t
>> ]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031
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>> \000-\031]+(?
>> :(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?
>> :\r\n)?[ \t])*))*\>(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)|(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
>> \000-\031]+(?:(?
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>> \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> \t])*(?:[^()<>
>> @,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> (?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t]
>> )*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> ".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*(?
>> :[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[
>> \]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*|(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\]
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>> :\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> \t])*(?:[^()<>@,
>> ;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> \t])*
>> (?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\
>> ".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[
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>> \t])*)(?
>> :\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|
>> \Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*))*|(?:
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>> ]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*)*\<(?:(?:\r\n)
>> ?[ \t])*(?:@(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["
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>> \t]
>> )*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\
>> ".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*)*:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*)?
>> (?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".
>> \[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:
>> \r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[
>> "()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|"(?:[^\"\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*"(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])
>> *))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])
>> +|\Z|(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*)(?:\
>> .(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()<>@,;:\\".\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])+|\Z
>> |(?=[\["()<>@,;:\\".\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
>> \t])*))*\>(?:(
>> ?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*)?;\s*)
>>
>> Paul
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