Eli the Bearded writes on 6 June 1997 at 11:03
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I find that I hardly ever do this for email addresses...it's a bit of
extra clutter and the the chance for false-matches is just about zero
(are there "om" (com), "du" (edu), "ov" (gov), "rg" (org), "nt" (int),
or "et" (net) top-level domains?).
I fail to see how those TLDs enter into it, but om (Oman), nt (Neutral
Zone), and et (Ethiopia) are valid. The real advantage of word boundry
I was talking about escaping the dots, not word-boundaries.
Given the above valid TLDs, there is a chance some regexps w/o the
'.'s escaped could inadvertently match the wrong thing - that is
".*.om" matching "host.com" instead of the intended "host.om".
Properly escaping the '.' solves this (as well as something more
restrictive like "[a-z0-9]*" instead of ".*").
Nevertheless, for most cases, I don't get pedantic and just use the
address as-is - w/o escaping the dots, even though that may not be
100% correct.
Dan
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