[pmwiki-devel] Email pattern...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:53:46PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Well, from here:
> 
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
> 
> it is worth noting that the % and _ are valid in the
> user name, I would make at least that one addition.
> 
>     '/^[-+.%_\\w]+@[-+\\w]+\\.[-+.\\w]+$/'

Underscores are already included by the \w.  :-)

> Not sure that the pluses are needed either...

Plus (+) is definitely needed, as <pmichaud+pmwiki at example.com>
is definitely a valid email address, and in fact there
are people that are using such addresses on the mailing
list.  :-)

Pm