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I wrote an email validating regex at one point. It checked that there was exactly one @ sign in the address, which was neither the first nor last character. S

I wrote an email validating regex at one point. It checked that there was exactly one @ sign in the address, which was neither the first nor last character. Seemed like a pretty good compromise to me.

maxk42 4y ago
Still incorrect. Valid email addresses can contain multiple '@'s as long as all but one are quoted.
- antihero 4y ago
  Yes but why would you do this other than to be extremely smug when forms fail for you?
- aetherson 4y ago
  And we lost the 0.00001% of the market that has such an email address.
- eli 4y ago
  Says who? I don't consider that address valid.