From: Brian Deacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
^((crazy)( )*[;\,]( )*)*(crazy)( )*[;\,]?$
Gack... even that version looks gnarly...
Anywho... the idea is to verify that the input is a string of either comma or semi-colon delimited instances of "crazy". Any amount of spaces surrounding the delimiters. The catch is that I don't want to require that the input end in a delimiter, so that any of these would be valid: crazy crazy, crazy crazy,crazy,crazy crazy,crazy;crazy;
Wouldn't
(\w*crazy\w*)([\,;](\w*crazy\w*))*
do this? (\w*crazy\w*) should be crazy followed by any amount of white space. [\,;]\w*crazy\w* should be crazy preceeded by a , or ; with any amount of whitespace. By *ibng that part, you can have any number of additional crazies. Actually on relook, I think I got almost the same thing except I used \w for whitespace, which seems like a better choice than ( ) and I put the optional crazies on the end, not the begining.
Thats because SMTP is absolutely insane in the number of legal options for an email address (an IP is a legal address for some reason). If you need to work with anything, you need something complex.And the above works fine for that. The problem is that I'm not actually looking for the word "crazy", I'm looking for valid smtp email addresses. I stole a >500 character long regex from regexlib.com Umm... this one: http://www.regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=328
Gabe
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