Talk:Coding Cookbook/Validate Email Address

Removed the broken "regex" solution
The shortest proper regex solution for this problem looks something like. Anything shorter than this is not matching "an email address". I removed the broken solution until someone figures out what should actually go in here, because in fact, regex solutions in javascript are almost always the wrong solution for this. --Randal L. Schwartz (talk) 00:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And I had to remove a second broken solution. Please. People.  Read, and use your head. --Randal L. Schwartz (talk) 02:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I spent a long time researching this subject, and am now comfortable with the results, feel free to use the regex I produced in the end, and use the article as citation... --82.152.138.226 (talk) 12:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * A regular expression of about 600 characters in length is all that's needed to validate an email address according to the RFC 5322 specification. It's certainly not impossible, despite what the article claims.

WTF?
"This means that the best way to detect whether an email address is valid is to simply send it an email." That section is completely useless and dump. I am voting for removing it.