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Robert Walker wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> Robert Walker wrote:
>>> Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>>>> How can I validate and email address without using complex reg-ex is
>>>> there a simple rails way to do this?
>>>
>>> Are you nuts? That's just the sort of thing Regexp was designed to do.
>>> And, it's not really all that complex.
>>
>> Yes it is. The *only* correct regexps I am aware of for e-mail
>> addresses are on the order of a page in length. All shorter regexps
>> reject some valid e-mail addresses.
>
> Thanks Marnen. I stand corrected.
>
> However, just to clarify, are you saying that Regexp is still the best
> approach? Given that what you're saying is true, which I'm sure it is,
> then I could imagine that performing this validation without using
> Regexp would be even more complex and require quite a bit more code.

The best approach is to download a plugin for email validation, because
someone, somewhere, has already done all the work ;-)
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