Don't use regular expressions to "validate" email addresses

[Ben Finney]

"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:

> What proportion of deliverable e-mail addresses have more than one @
> in them?

I don't know. Fortunately, I don't need to; I don't "validate" email
addresses by regular expression.

What proportion of deliverable email addresses do you want to discard
as "not valid"?

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Ben Finney