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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)
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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

The article you just mentioned in the comments includes both a completely reasonable and viable regex and binary and library alternatives that are in most languages.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Reasonable and viable ≠ RFC compliant

This quote summarises my views:

There is some danger that common usage and widespread sloppy coding will establish a de facto standard for e-mail addresses that is more restrictive than the recorded formal standard.

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