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[Brian Dailey]

The Daily WTF had a regular expression recently on their page that was 
supposed to be the be-all end-all for email validation.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Validating_Email_Addresses.aspx

It's near the bottom of the page. The comments have a lot more examples 
and discussion about email validation in general.

Peter Sawczynec wrote:
> I am currently using this regexp noted below to validate client-side 
> before the user submits so that 
> at least their email is well-formed:
>  
> var emailRegxp = /^([\w]+)(.[\w]+)*@([\w]+)(.[\w]{2,3}){1,2}$/;
>  if( emailRegxp.test(strng) != true ){
>   return false;
>  }else{
>   return true;
>  } 
>  
> But, this regexp is not accepting emails of the form name at tom-cat.com 
> <mailto:name at tom-cat.com>
> It is rejecting the hyphen in the domain name.
>  
> Does anyone have a real-life tested simple regexp that would plug into the 
> snippet above and be more complete?
>  
> Thanks to all.
>  
> Warmest regards,
>  
> Peter Sawczynec
> Technology Dir.
> Sun-code.com
> Web related services
> 646.316.3678
> ps at sun-code.com <mailto:ps at sun-code.com>
>  
> 
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