I need some help with a regexp please

[Ant]

John Machin wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> > John Machin wrote:
> > ...
> > > A little more is unfortunately not enough. The best advice you got was
> > > to use an existing e-mail address validator.
> >
> > We got bitten by this at the last place I worked - we were using a
> > regex email validator (from Microsoft IIRC)
...
> Oh, sorry for the abbreviation. "use" implies "source from believedly
> reliable s/w source; test; then deploy" :-)

I actually meant that we got bitten by using a regex validator, not by
using an existing one. Though we did get bitten by an existing one, and
it being from Microsoft we should have known better ;-)