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[[Wiki page on e-mail addresses]]






[[different meanings of "[regular expressions]"]]




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[[When REs go wrong]]



[Regular expression examples]
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05Apr03 [Brian Theado] - For XML, I'm guessing the title of this page is referring to one-off regular expressions, but see [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html] for a paper describing shallow parsing of XML using only a regular expression.  The regular expression is about 30 lines long, but the paper documents it well.  The Appendix includes sample implementation in Perl, Javascript and Flex/Lex.  The Appendix also includes an interactive demo (using the Javascript implementation apparently).  The demo helped me understand what they meant by "shallow parsing".  For a Tcl translation, see [XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions].
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Why are regular expressions not suited for parsing email addresses?
"[Regular expression to validate e-mail addresses]"
comments on this.

A few more comments appear in
"The Limits to Regular Expressions"
[http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=2472/uni1037388368795/]
and "Regular Expressions Do Not Solve All Problems"
[http://informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=102171&redir=1],
themselves descendants of "notyet"
[http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19607&cid=1871619].