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what debugging regex feels like (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I found your email address:

(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])

[-] exu@feditown.com 16 points 5 days ago

I was about to ruin your day by finding a valid email address that would be rejected by your regex, but it doesn't even parse correctly on regex101.com

The only valid regex for email is .+@.+ btw