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		azylman on Sept 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop validating email addresses with your complex ... The difficulty of writing regexes for email validation wasn't the main point - the main point was that emails don't follow spec so any regex based on that is inherently wrong. However, it seems like saying "most email validation regexes are broken" is equivalent to saying "email validation regex is hard"

subsystem on Sept 7, 2012 [–]

They do most likely follow the standard, just a different standard than the one you're thinking of. E.g. RFC6530.

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