Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
by simion314 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:26AM
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>You won't need to edit it for 20 years
I won't bet my life on it but probably some other sucker will have to fix it. This happened to me where I found a regex that was validating urls was incorrect after urls were allowed to contain unicode stuff (I do not remember the details just that we had an url from a customer that contained arabic looking characters)
IMO the language standard library should include this stuff of validating stuff to avoid developers copy pasting dubious quality regex from Stack Overflow
I won't bet my life on it but probably some other sucker will have to fix it. This happened to me where I found a regex that was validating urls was incorrect after urls were allowed to contain unicode stuff (I do not remember the details just that we had an url from a customer that contained arabic looking characters)
IMO the language standard library should include this stuff of validating stuff to avoid developers copy pasting dubious quality regex from Stack Overflow