[UA-discuss] Regular Expression To Validate EAI Addresses

[Abdelmeniem Tharwat]

So John, which one could we follow or modify to handle Marc concern !!

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> On Aug 14, 2020, at 6:12 PM, John Levine <john.levine at standcore.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <58D262E2-7B30-4F9B-882F-49865CDC4B2A at governanceprimer.com> you write:
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>> Abdel, thank you greatly for this.
>> 
>> One of the coders at Governance Primer has been studying that code since you showed it on the EAI call, and came up
>> witht he following variant:
>> 
>> ^(([\p{L}.%+-]+@[\p{L}.-]+\.[\p{L}]{2,})|([\p{L}]{2,}\.[\p{L}.-]+@[\p{L}.%+-]+))$
>> 
>> What do you think about this one?
> 
> I don't understand what this one is trying to do but it's clearly wrong since
> it allows % in host names.
> 
> If it's trying to handle RTL scripts, your coder misunderstands the
> way RE matching works. It matches characters in the order they're
> stored, not the order they're displayed.
> 
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> Regards,
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