Correct validation for email
Reported by Jonas | September 25th, 2008 @ 11:48 AM
The validation for email fails in many cases. I've been looking for a regular expression more correct.
- This will match 99.99% of all email addresses in actual use today:
[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_{|}~-]+)@(?:a-
z0-9?.)+a-z0-9?
- The next allow any two-letter country code top level domain, and only specific generic top level domains. It is necessary update it as new top-level domains are added:
[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_{|}~-]+)@(?:a-
z0-9?.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|
info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum)\b
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Sam Smoot September 25th, 2008 @ 02:09 PM
- State changed from “new” to “invalid”
That doesn't appear to be a Ruby Regexp (it's not escaped properly), and doesn't cover some of the test cases already present.
I do want to commit to solving this problem, but I suspect that a Regexp is the wrong way to do it if we want better coverage.
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Rick