Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?

Robin Schoonover end at endif.cjb.net
Fri Mar 26 17:58:31 PST 2004


On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 02:47:46 +0300 (MSK), Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > The reason I suggested the first syntax is so just the email
> > address could be simply parsed.
> 
> IMHO Email address could be simply parsed any way.
> Regexp not so difficult for it:
> [A-Za-z0-9_-]+@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*\.[A-Za-z]+
> it could be more complex of course for more strict errors chechking.
> 

You can have . in the first part too (and probably other characters).  You
don't know how complex and difficult it can be to parse an email addresses
until you actually try to bring a regexp into use. :P

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Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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