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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm not sure I blame the sites. The spec is so complex that it's not even possible to know which regex to use

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The spec is so complex that it’s not even possible to know which regex to use

    Yes. Almost like a regex is not the correct tool to use, and instead they should use a well-tested library function to validate email addresses.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Exactly! But its not obvios. So most of those shitty websites don't even know they have a problem.

    Then there are also people ignoring it on purpose. I once read a reddit comment saying 'well of your address looks like "John wick 🐶❤️"@2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 I don't event want your email in my DB because oit will break something

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's one very random place to find that. There are a lot of different one and there is no way we all just agree to use that one.

    Look art his site that shows a more complete and (in theory) official website. While also explaining that there is no regex that is perfect

    https://emailregex.com/

    (Compete regex for the lazy)

    (?:\[a-z0-9!#$%&'\*+/=?^\_\`{|}\~-]+(?:\\.\[a-z0-9!#$%&'\*+/=?^\_\`{|}\~-]+)\*|"(?:\[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\\\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])\*")@(?:(?:\[a-z0-9]\(?:\[a-z0-9-]\*\[a-z0-9])?\\.)+\[a-z0-9]\(?:\[a-z0-9-]\*\[a-z0-9])?|\\\[(?:(?:25\[0-5]|2\[0-4]\[0-9]|\[01]?\[0-9]\[0-9]?)\\.){3}(?:25\[0-5]|2\[0-4]\[0-9]|\[01]?\[0-9]\[0-9]?|\[a-z0-9-]\*\[a-z0-9]:(?:\[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\\\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\\])
    
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I have a feeling, the ones codapine is stating, didn't even care to half-read the spec and just went with what they knew from experience.
    Maybe they didn't even know there was a spec.
    Maybe they asked ChatGPT for the regex.

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