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Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions

Posted on Tue 1 Jun 2010 by Joseph Scott

Validating an email address with a regular expression is something nearly every developer struggles with. So when I came across Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions I wanted to make sure I left myself a note here so that I … Continue reading →

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When Regular Expressions Gets Greedy

Posted on Mon 4 May 2009 by Joseph Scott

I’ve been using a regular expression (PHP’s preg_match function) to parse email addresses. The addresses have a consistent pattern that look like: anamehere+XXXXXXXX@mail.example.com The XXXXXX section is a random set of characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and -. The regular expression’s … Continue reading →

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