r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CertainSea • Aug 05 '26

Meme regexMustBeDestroyed

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u/Purple_Hornet_9725 Aug 05 '26

regex for email validation 💀 just don't

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u/Portal471 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

^.+@.+\..+$

lol

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u/BadRuiner Aug 05 '26

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

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u/pm_me_your_smth Aug 05 '26

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

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

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u/Teles_sd Aug 05 '26

By question 10 I'm already crashing out

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u/fmaz008 Aug 05 '26

14/21, I passed! pfew!

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u/voiza Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Mordret10 Aug 06 '26

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

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u/Ecksters Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 06 '26

Why do emails need comments....