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henrikschroder on Sept 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop validating email addresses with your complex ...

Oh come on, does this look complex to you:

  (^[-!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{}|~0-9A-Z]+(\.[-!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{}|~0-9A-Z]+)*|^""([\001-\010\013\014\016-\037!#-\[\]-\177]|\\[\001-011\013\014\016-\177])*"")@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,6}$

ch0wn on Sept 7, 2012 [–]

And yet it's not enough. According to the standard,

"my@scary$doublequoted.address"@example.com

is a valid address.

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