Comments on: Start rewriting your email address test regex’s! http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/ Confessions of a code Junkie and anything else i fancy! Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:02:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barack Obama http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-1275 Barack Obama Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:39:54 +0000 http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-1275 I too think TLD is the most imp factor in an email Id. I too think TLD is the most imp factor in an email Id.

]]> By: johnb http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-994 johnb Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:23:37 +0000 http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-994 yeah maybe, but there are currently only a handful of 'none 2 character' tlds, stuff like .com, .edu, .aero, .info, .name, .museum (and a few others) other than that you can safely test for the @ symbol with either at least 2 characters between [a-zA-Z] at the end OR one of the few 'long ones' and you'll have a pretty good chance of having a legimate email address. What this annoucement means is that all you can pretty much do now to check is to look for an @ symbol and perhaps a dot after the @. You still have to adjust your validators to account for these new formats though..... yeah maybe, but there are currently only a handful of ‘none 2 character’ tlds, stuff like .com, .edu, .aero, .info, .name, .museum (and a few others) other than that you can safely test for the @ symbol with either at least 2 characters between [a-zA-Z] at the end OR one of the few ‘long ones’ and you’ll have a pretty good chance of having a legimate email address.

What this annoucement means is that all you can pretty much do now to check is to look for an @ symbol and perhaps a dot after the @.

You still have to adjust your validators to account for these new formats though…..

]]> By: al http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-993 al Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:15:58 +0000 http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/06/26/start-rewriting-your-email-address-test-regexs/#comment-993 Surely email addresses will still require a domain name before the TLD? e.g. you@foo.bah - we don't have me@com Surely email addresses will still require a domain name before the TLD? e.g. you@foo.bah – we don’t have me@com

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