the scripts in question are there at
http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/email-opt.pl
http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/email-unopt.pl
rgds,
manohar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] new to GIMP


> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:42:28PM +0530, Philip S. Tellis wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> >
> > > For scripts that depend upon '@' to extract mail ids, I suggest the
> > > regex in the following command:
> > >
> > > grep <.*@[^>]*> /var/spool/mail/binand
> >
> > Anyone who's read Mastering Regular Expressions (Jeffrey Friedl) knows
> > that the correct regex to match an email address is about 7000+ bytes
> > long.  There is a shorter version (4000+ bytes), but it is slower.
>
> Wow! That'll be some regex.
>
> But I guess this is for parsing an address, as opposed to checking whether
> a sequence of characters is a syntactically correct address or not.
> Mind you, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is a valid email address *syntactically*.
>
> Anyway, my regex is also not completely 2822 compliant - was reading
> through it, and there are a bunch of exceptions and special cases (eg:
> mine trips over local delivery, <name> type of addresses).
>
> Binand
>
> PS: Did you mean 'optimal' when you said correct up there? Otherwise
> why isn't the 4000 character version more correct, so to speak?
>
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