Re:Ruby's Email Address Regexp
by secabeen on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:50PM
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Interesting question. RFC1123 states that TLDs should be alphabetic, and that the first (or only) character must be a letter or a digit, which should exclude a TLD of '@'. local-parts can include most printable characters other than ()<>[];:@\,.
/^+@+$/ is easy and the false positives it allows are weird enough to accept.
/^+@+$/ is easy and the false positives it allows are weird enough to accept.