Lists, Email Addresses, Regular Expressions
In belated celebration of the newly declared "Regular Expression Day", I thought I would cover just one of the many way in which regular expressions makes my life easier.
When I read Ben's entry and saw that he uses regular expressions every week, I thought "I don't use them that often". Within in hour of that thought, however, I was on the phone with a fellow programmer discussing a problem for which regular expressions was a great solution.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address for a list of valid characters
Thanks! I suspected someone more knowledgeable might have a suggestion on how to improve the regex. We will certainly expand based on that reference.
Thanks for the help.