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Re: Req expression translation

by dbwiz (Curate)
on Dec 12, 2003 at 13:01 UTC ( [id://314294]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Req expression translation

It is supposed to catch an email address ending with "myinfo.com". However, it will also catch horrible things like "....@myinfozcom" (the dot matches everything except a newline!)

perl -MYAPE::Regex::Explain -e 'print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new(qr/^[ +\w.-]+\@myinfo.com/)->explain' The regular expression: (?-imsx:^[\w.-]+\@myinfo.com) matches as follows: NODE EXPLANATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive) (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not matching \n) (matching whitespace and # normally): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ^ the beginning of the string ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [\w.-]+ any character of: word characters (a-z, A- Z, 0-9, _), '.', '-' (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \@ '@' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- myinfo 'myinfo' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . any character except \n ---------------------------------------------------------------------- com 'com' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of grouping ----------------------------------------------------------------------

If you need to validate an email address, you are better off with Email::Valid.

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