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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by omegalulw on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:39AM (#31093252)
What is the significance of [a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}? Some special limit on 61 characters?
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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by Beltalowda on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:14AM (#31094768)
Domain labels are limited to 63 bytes, with the [a-z..] before and after that makes 61 + 1 + 1 = 63.
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