• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    6 days 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.

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      6 days 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.