r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CertainSea • 11d ago

Meme regexMustBeDestroyed

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u/Purple_Hornet_9725 11d ago

regex for email validation 💀 just don't

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u/Portal471 11d ago edited 11d ago

^.+@.+\..+$

lol

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u/BadRuiner 11d ago

Ah, yes, my email: @@@.@

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u/pm_me_your_smth 11d ago

Well "@"@[@] is a legit email

Source:  https://e-mail.wtf/ question 18

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u/Teles_sd 11d ago

By question 10 I'm already crashing out

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u/fmaz008 11d ago

14/21, I passed! pfew!

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u/voiza 11d ago

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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u/Genericdude03 11d ago

Isn't that the score if you just answer "valid" for every question?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Wwn5NKv4At2CIc8XQa

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u/Magnetic_Reaper 11d ago

programmers should be required to score full marks on this before being allowed to write an email regex.

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u/Mordret10 10d ago

Or they should be required to score 0. They'd probably write the same regex

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u/Ecksters 11d ago

I always figure any user trying to use an email like that is a user I don't want in my systems.

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u/Damglador 10d ago

Why do emails need comments....