Michael Pavling wrote: > On 28 September 2010 17:29, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Do not use regexes to validate e-mail addresses. >> >> Pffft. > > Nah, I'm with Marnen on this. Trying to regex validate an email with > 100% surety is a sure-fire way of annoying someone.
I have seen regexes that purport to actually be correct for e-mail validation. They are on the order of a page in length when printed in reasonably-sized type. > Same with > postcodes, Really? Shouldn't you at least be able to come up with *country-specific* regexes for those? > and even more so with names (can you believe that some > people think they can regex what *name* a person may have - I've seen > it; it's rubbish! :-) As the proud bearer of a hyphenated last name, I am intimately familiar with this brand of rubbish. > > You can probably regex close to all potential email addresses, but as > Marnen says, the best way to validate an email address is to send an > email to it. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
