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The difficulty of writing regexes for email validation wasn't the main point - the main point was that emails don't follow spec so any regex based on that is in
by azylman 14y ago
The difficulty of writing regexes for email validation wasn't the main point - the main point was that emails don't follow spec so any regex based on that is inherently wrong. However, it seems like saying "most email validation regexes are broken" is equivalent to saying "email validation regex is hard"
- subsystem 14y agoThey do most likely follow the standard, just a different standard than the one you're thinking of. E.g. RFC6530.