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Re: Please evaluate: RegEx for validating e-mail addresses

by Your Mother (Archbishop)
on Sep 25, 2004 at 21:10 UTC ( [id://393852]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Please evaluate: RegEx for validating e-mail addresses

I also recommend the "it's too frickin hard so let it be" approach. For most of the stuff I do, I allow the email to be semi-arbitrary and then if the user doesn't get his confirmation mail, etc, it's his responsibility. The UDP nature of email makes it ultimately impossible to trust 100% anyway, so I don't feel bad just handing the user input over to the mail stuff.

Although, surely someone has taken a crack at validation with Parse::RecDescent or somesuch? I'd love to see it if someone's done it.

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Re^2: Please evaluate: RegEx for validating e-mail addresses
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Sep 25, 2004 at 21:17 UTC
    Although, surely someone has taken a crack at validation with Parse::RecDescent or somesuch? I'd love to see it if someone's done it.

    We were just talking about that in the CB. bart pointed out that Parse::RecDescent would probably be way too slow. Parse::YAPP might be better (see Re:x2 Easy Things (a plug for Parse::YAPP)) if you want a pure-Perl solution, but for speed there's no reason not to build a parser with yacc or bison or something of the sort and XS it.

    Incidentally, I googled for an RFC822 yacc grammar (I can't believe that nobody's distributing one; it seems like the obvious thing to do) and came across this article. It's rather old, but probably still applies.

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