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		taspeotis on Dec 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The “Chad” bug The .NET Framework's email address validation has a pretty ... comprehensive ... regular expression [1]. [1] http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.ComponentModel....

chris_wot on Dec 31, 2015 [–]

Holy line of cartoon swear words Batman!

I would hate to be the programmer who had to debug that regex.

leviathan on Dec 31, 2015 | [–]

You clearly haven't seen the regex that matches emails according to RFC822:

Behold: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

chris_wot on Jan 1, 2016 | | [–]

/me falls off chair

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