Email address matching

[Cameron Laird]

In article <babfhp$sr5$1 at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Rick Holbert  <holbertr at dma.org> wrote:
>A wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Is anyone capable of writing a regular expression for  email address
>> matching? Thanks
>> Best regards,
>> Ladislav
>
>Olivier Sessink used the following in his mail2ldap.py script:
>
>match = re.compile('[a-zA-Z0-9._]+@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]+)').match
>
>I've used a slightly modified version in one of my scripts:
>
>match = re.compile('[a-zA-Z0-9._+]+@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]+)').match
>
>Rick

True.

But there's a darker side to the story, which the original
poster deserves to know:  <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/2934 >.
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Cameron Laird <Cameron at Lairds.com>
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