how to check if a string is a valid email address (RFC822)?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:40:22PM +0000, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:

> I need to parse some text and find all (RFC822 valid) email addresses
> in it.

> Is there a module that can take a string and tell me if the string is a
> valid email address or not?

> I am looking for something like Email::Valid or Email::Find modules for
> Perl.

I think (but am not sure, it kind of depends on what kind of input you
expect) you are looking for the rfc822 module. You might have to pre-parse
the text a bit, but that depends on your input.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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