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<p>I couldn't resist. I took a look at the site. <br>
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<p>The domain name and the surface content are infuriating. They
create a frame with the idea that a regex for email addresses is
possible and desirable. <br>
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<p>However, at the bottom of the page is a discussion thread. It
says exactly what I would hope a discussion about "email regex"
would say. It is dominated by objections to using regex's for
anything more than the most simple syntax checking. Many people
make the point that the only way to know if an email address is
valid is to send a test message to it. <br>
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<p>And, if you look at the regex examples in the different
programming languages, they do different things. That says to me,
as a software developer, that this is not a serious site. If the
site had a really good regex, they would try to preserve its
merits in all the programming languages.</p>
<p>So, I think this site is infuriating, but not worth spending much
effort to correct.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-05-20 02:08, Don Hollander
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone know anything about this?
Apparently it’s not fit for purpose and should be either fixed
or withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John: How’s the universal regex going in
the IETF?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope everyone out there is OK. Here in
New Zealand we are emerging from our bubbles. So far, so
good.<o:p></o:p></p>
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