Friday afternoon blag fest

[Dave Cross]

Quoting Chris Jack <chris_jack at msn.com>:

> What's the longest regular expression anyone's ever written? Choose   
> your own criteria for longest (e.g. #lines, #characters) although I   
> suspect pitifully slow might get less respect from the audience....

The email address checker from "Mastering Regular Expressions" will  
take some beating.

It's included in Email::Valid.

   http://search.cpan.org/src/RJBS/Email-Valid-0.179/lib/Email/Valid.pm

Starts about two thirds of the way down.

Dave...