I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What claim, that I probably could? I didn’t say anything at all about it being easy, it would be a pain in the ass and involve a lot of checking the RFC, but I could probably make one that accurately represents the spec if I wanted to take the time, and even then I’m not exactly confident I would hit every edge case.

    But why would I go to that hassle when there are well designed and vetted ones available?

    I believe you missed the point I was making

    • nybble41@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The full email address syntax described in the RFC cannot be precisely matched with a mere regular expression due to the support for nested comments. The need to track arbitrarily deep nesting state makes it a non-regular language.

      If you remove the comments first the remainder can be parsed with a very complex regex, but it will be about a kilobyte long.