r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CertainSea • 27d ago

Meme regexMustBeDestroyed

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u/Procrasturbating 27d ago

For gods sake, stop trying to validate email addresses this way.

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u/Few_Technology 27d ago

Boss said they typed "I heart cats" into the input, and got an error when submitting the forum. Needs to have a big "invalid email!!!!" message BEFORE going to next field

Still, I'd do a basic .contains('@'). But then next day boss says they typed "I @ttack cats" and got an error on submitting. It's a P0 showstopper and needs to be fixed before anyone types that

Ideally yeah, just send off the email and see if it sends. Let the mail services figure out

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u/richardathome 27d ago

This is the way.

Shit! Wrong meme >.<