On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Someone has actually written a regexp to interpret email addresses
> properly. I think it was included in the ORA regexp book.
Sort of properly. It doesn't actually match every legal address.
> It's half a page long,
Much longer. It is a Perl script that *generates* a regular expression.
I use the generated expression as one of the tests for PCRE. It is about
10K long (though it has lots of white space and comments in it).
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