On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Wizard wrote: > I'm writing a script to do email filtering, and I have some questions: > 1.> These are all valid email address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- this is valid, but not standard > > The problem is that last one with DOMAIN.CC format.
As others have pointed out, that's not the only oddball case you're likely to come across. :) Here's another one: future proofing. The two or three character TLD constraint you see today isn't necessary, and maybe in the future we'll see longer addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Or Rendezvous might catch on, and addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] might become common in some contexts. You probably don't want to have to keep tweaking your code here. Darren's right -- this is too much of a pain to bother with hand-rolling; offload the work to a CPAN module and update it as needed. If you're hell bent on doing this yourself, I'm sure the relevant RFCs would be a good source of answers. I think rfc822 is the main mail one relevant to your needs, but someone may correct me on that... -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
