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		The biggest known RegEx? (ex-parrot.com)
		2 points by turrini on Nov 16, 2016 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

the_duke on Nov 16, 2016 [–]

That is one nasty looking RegEx.

Email address verification has become a bit easier recently, thanks to unicode support (IDNA [1]) and new TLDs.

Basically, you need to accept:

almost-anything@almost-anything

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490

lellansin on Nov 16, 2016 | [–]

+1

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