Simple way to validate an e-mail address in C#

Posted by lanilogic on Sunday December 14, 2014 @05:55AM
from the swoo.co.uk dept.

http://swoo.co.uk/blog/post/23/simple-way-to-validate-an-e-mail-address-using-c#

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Re:Simple way to validate an e-mail address in C# by zikzak on Sunday December 14, 2014 @08:47AM (#8748282)

It may not matter for some but this article is advocating trying to instantiate an email address to see if an exception is thrown. This is likely far more expensive than a decent regexp based on the email address specifications.

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