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? > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
