The one shown doesn't even work. The sqaure brackets are not even balanced.
The "official" regular expression to find an email address runs into more than 6000 characters. You can find some information about it here (random Google search response): <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html" title="regular-expressions.info"> How to validate an email address</a regular-expressions.info>
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Re:grab email addresses
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 01, 2006 10:42 AMThe "official" regular expression to find an email address runs into more than 6000 characters. You can find some information about it here (random Google search response): <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html" title="regular-expressions.info"> How to validate an email address</a regular-expressions.info>
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