At 02:17 PM 6/13/01 -0700, Peter Cornelius wrote:
>I've never used Email::Valid but it may be a good way to solve the problem,
>I'd be impressed if it actually catches all valid addresses (and very
>happy). I've always just accepted that there would be some special cases
>that wouldn't be caught
> Subject: testing on email characters
I just wanted to expand on Jeff Yoaks comment that the regexes discussed in
this thread don't actually validate syntax on _all_ e-mail addresses. I
think this is a common problem. I remember looking this up in 'Mastering
Regular Expressions' (though I don
At 06:45 PM 6/12/01 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote:
>Please, if you try and flame posts, get your facts straight.
That seems a little harsh. I don't think it was intended as a flame or to
be insulting in any way. It was just suggesting what the author thought
was a better way to do it. :-)
>2nd:
/^[\w.-]+$/ and !/[^\w.-]/ have one major difference (and I am kicking
myself for not seeing it until now). The former requires that at least
one character must exist. !/[^\w.-]/ is equivalent to /[^[\w.-]*$/.
However, this can be overcome by saying !(/^$/ or /[^\w.-]/) and it
still has one ad
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:19:23PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> /[\W.-]/ expands to /[[^a-zA-Z0-9_].-]/
Conceptually, yes, but the pattern /[[^a-zA-Z0-9_].-]/ isn't going to give
you what you seem to expect if you were to actually try to use it. \w, \W,
\d, \D, and friends are magic like that; the
On 12 Jun 2001 18:45:23 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote:
> Please, if you try and flame posts, get your facts straight.
>
> 1st: - is a range operator, and hence needs not be escaped when it's not
> indicating a range, ie, at the beginning or end of a []
> so this regex is not 'wrong'. fee
Please, if you try and flame posts, get your facts straight.
1st: - is a range operator, and hence needs not be escaped when it's not
indicating a range, ie, at the beginning or end of a []
so this regex is not 'wrong'. feel free to try it.
2nd:the regex is purposely written ver
On 12 Jun 2001 17:45:16 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote:
> try this:
>
> unless (/^[-\.\w]+$/) { print "you cheater!" }
>
> this will check if from beginning to end of $_ it contains - . (not even sure
> you need to \ the . ) or any word character (a-z A-Z and _ )
>
> the ^ says to start at the beginn
try this:
unless (/^[-\.\w]+$/) { print "you cheater!" }
this will check if from beginning to end of $_ it contains - . (not even sure
you need to \ the . ) or any word character (a-z A-Z and _ )
the ^ says to start at the beginning of the string... the $ says to read till
end of line...
i'm o
