Email address matching

[Rick Holbert]

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