Mastering Regular Expressions 2nd Ed.

[Tim Roberts]

amuys at shortech.com.au (Andrae Muys) wrote:

>Paul Rubin <phr-n2002b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote in message news:<7xn0si9o2o.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>...
>> Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:
>> > The multi-thousand byte full expression to match a valid RFC822 e-mail
>> > address was practically worth the price all by itself!
>> 
>> Argggh!  That sounds like regular expressions aren't really the best
>> way to match RFC822 addresses.
>
>More like matching RFC822 addresses isn't worth the price of
>admission.

Exactly.

  "This multi-line ""behemoth""
   is a perfectly valid"
  <"RFC822 e-mail"@address.com(really and truly)>

I'll bet Outlook doesn't handle it...
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.