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acabal on Sept 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop validating email addresses with your complex ...

PHP coders can use the simple built-in filter_var function: http://phpbestpractices.org/#validating-emails

nickzoic on Sept 7, 2012 [–]

Yeah, and there's a Perl Email::Valid http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Valid-0.190/ which checks for well-formedness and the existence of the domain.

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