me: i need to validate some email addresses, so i am going to write a quick regex. how hard can it be?
*4 hours later*
me. i now have 2 problems and one of them is that I've accidentally summoned an ancient daemon. wht the actual fuck
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@nixCraft Reminded of this old gem:
@nixCraft now toss moving between BSD/macOS and GNU into the mix.
@nixCraft Unwanted Summonings in Cyberspace
@nixCraft not to be that guy, but I've always wondered if this could be turned into a product or something
@nixCraft Ah, did the reghex by mistake huh?!
@nixCraft One thing I've learned over the years, is never try to validate an email address with regex !
@nixCraft regex might be hard, the email addresses RFC is "wild", cf.