On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:32 PM, DenesL wrote:
> IS_EMAIL does not follow the RFC specs for valid email addresses
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address)
>
> even a simple a...@b.com fails
>
> it is kinda late to work on the regex now, maybe tomorrow.
The RFC is fairly hard to validate. If that's what we really want, I
found this one on the web that looks about right:
^(?!\.)("([^"\r\\]|\\["\r\\])*"|([-a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~]|(?...@[a-
z0-9][\w\.-]*[a-z0-9]\.[a-z][a-z\.]*[a-z]$
It assumes the case-insensitive flag.
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx
Overkill? Or, what the heck?
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