On 5/31/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:53:46PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > > --- "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, from here: > > > > http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
The link above was quite interesting reading. No clue my simple question would generate such interesting discussion. For my purposes, however, the double slash solved the basic problem. I'm curious why the single slash did not escape the dot while the double slash did. Can any one explain that? /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Amazing how complex this was. Cheers, Dan PS. Here's the official rfc 822 standard pattern according to the link above, in case anyone wants it (remove line breaks). 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