Have you checked cflib.org,. I have defo seen such a regex somewhere Regards Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine On Feb 25, 2013 7:46 AM, ".jonah" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And you know what, I glossed over that sentence before replying. :O > > > On 2/24/13 8:06 PM, Adam Cameron wrote: > > Absolutely mate. I did make sure to point that out: > > > >> That said, this > >> is the fault of the original regex, not your fix for it. > > (Yes, I did see the smiley too though ;-) > > > > > > On 25 February 2013 15:00, .jonah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I take issue! ;) > >> > >> Kevin simply asked to his regex working with an apostrophie. My answer > >> did that. He didn't ask for the be-all-end-all of email validators. > >> > >> Now, as to the rest of your comment and blog post, I'm in agreement. > >> It's rarely done correctly. (Not accounting for plus addressing often > >> annoys me.) > >> > >> However, writing an RFC compliant parser is quite possible and someone > >> should probably do it. However, trying to build something that would > >> work 100% out in the wild would probably be futile. > >> > >> > >> > >> On 2/24/13 11:12 AM, Adam Cameron wrote: > >>>> This seems to work, no? > >>> No. It doesn't allow for quite a number of completely legit characters, > >>> notably the + sign (which is very common), amongst others. That said, > >> this > >>> is the fault of the original regex, not your fix for it. > >>> > >>> My feedback on this got too long for a response here, so I wrote it up > on > >>> my blog: > >>> > >> > http://adamcameroncoldfusion.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/email-address-validation-1-in-series.html > >> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354675 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
