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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: ROGER BELL_WEST
date: 2020-03-19 14:24:00
subject: Re: Regexes and C

On 2020-03-19, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>So, can any of you do better, i.e. write a regex that CAN validate the
>syntax of an e-mail address in terms of its structure and the set of
>permitted characters on the username and domain parts (the permitted
>character sets are not the same).

No; email addresses cannot be syntactically validated by regexp alone.

R

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