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Re:The “Chad” bug by taspeotis on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:57AM (#10816431)
The .NET Framework's email address validation has a pretty ... comprehensive ... regular expression [1].

[1] http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.ComponentModel....

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Re:The “Chad” bug by chris_wot on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:48AM (#10816853)
Holy line of cartoon swear words Batman!

I would hate to be the programmer who had to debug that regex.

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Re:The “Chad” bug by leviathan on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:19AM (#10816923)
You clearly haven't seen the regex that matches emails according to RFC822:

Behold: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

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Re:The “Chad” bug by chris_wot on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:35AM (#10822273)
/me falls off chair
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