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laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And this right here is a great example of why simple basic RegEx is rarely adequate

At the very least, should be something like

^[^@\s]+@([^@\s.]+\.)+[^@\s.]+$

I’m like 99% sure I missed at least a few cases there, and will say “please don’t use this for anything production”

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jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Here’s two: you can have multiple @s forming relays in an email address, and you can also break all the rules around dots and spaces if you put quotes around the local part, eg “.sarah…”@emails.com

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- laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And this is exactly why I wouldn’t do my own, I had no idea either of those were legal/possible
  
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  - jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    To be fair nor do most email providers! It’s in the spec, though.
    
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