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Ian Dunn
Personal blog · fightingforalostcause.netprogrammingwriting
Ian Dunn writes Fighting for a Lost Cause.net, a personal blog at fightingforalostcause.net about programming and writing. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Perfect email regex finally found”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ian Dunn's 2006 page comparing email-address regexes against a set of valid addresses, to show how different validation patterns perform. Commenters cite it when discussing email validation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ian Dunn's personal blog
Most-linked posts?
- Perfect email regex finally found5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2008-10-03
- Comparing Email Address Validating Regular Expressions2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-05
What Hacker News says?
The way that a perfect regex was found: http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg...
Comment linking /misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex”Submitted Perfect email regex finally found as a story · 310 points
HN discussionyes, there's a good page here about the different regexs: http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg...
Comment linking /misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex”Submitted Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionVisualization of the perfect email regex: http://goo.gl/p80Ky Regex source: http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg...
Comment linking /misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Regex Visualization: give it a regex and see the state diagram ”Submitted Comparing E-mail Address Validation Regular Expressions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg... is a good site that has a number of email regex variants and how well they do on various email address formats.
Comment linking /misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Formly: the form glamorizer for jQuery”Submitted Comparing Email Address Validating Regular Expressions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also this comparison of email regular expressions (as found in various languages and libraries), compared against a selection of valid email addresses: https://fightingforalostcause.net/content/misc/2006/compare-...
Comment linking /content/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Ruby's Email Address Regexp”Submitted Comparing Email Address Validating Regular Expressions (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://fightingforalostcause.net/content/misc/2006/compare-... This is one of my favorite articles on validating emails using RegEx, I fondly remember reading it over 15 years ago. It's stuck with me ever since.
Comment linking /content/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Lies We Tell Ourselves About Email Addresses”Submitted Comparing Email Address Validating Regular Expressions (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis[1] is or at least, was PHPs validator for email. Author provides a lot of insight into the complexity of regexing emails. [1] https://fightingforalostcause.net/content/misc/2006/compare-...
Comment linking /content/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
on “Email Address Regular Expression That 99.99% Works”
