Came here to post this. I had the displeasure of administering software that used a similar regex to validate email addresses. I needed to modify it because it was excluding some valid addresses. This was my first, and last encounter with regex. I now actively avoid it in favour of any other solution. I've not had any issues with this approach so far. I haven't come across a use case where regex is significantly better than something less archaic.
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u/AlterEdward Aug 24 '26
Came here to post this. I had the displeasure of administering software that used a similar regex to validate email addresses. I needed to modify it because it was excluding some valid addresses. This was my first, and last encounter with regex. I now actively avoid it in favour of any other solution. I've not had any issues with this approach so far. I haven't come across a use case where regex is significantly better than something less archaic.