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Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee!
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[in a yellow box:]
Whenever I learn a new skill I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day.Megan: Oh no! The killer must have followed her on vacation!
[Megan points to computer.]
Megan: But to find them we’d have to search through 200 MB of emails looking for something formatted like an address!
Cueball: It’s hopeless!Off-panel voice: Everybody stand back.
Off-panel voice: I know regular expressions.
[A man swings in on a rope, toward the computer.]
tap tap
The word PERL! appears in a bubble.[The man swings away, and the other characters cheer.]
Who’s gonna tell them? I’d do it but I’m still busy parsing HTML with regex… it’s working any minute now!
What am I missing? I typically used it as a sanity check and would vet the changes. Never as a one-click modify. Or is there something else I should know about?
This short article has some good examples at the top: https://sigparser.com/developers/email-parsing/regex-validate-email-address/
Basically, you can very easily make a regex to match 99% of email addresses, but technically an email could be something like “!@[124.35.6.72]”
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