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		arkitaip on May 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex ... First you verify the email, then you process the emails. What good is a list of email addresses if you haven't verified their authenticity?

S4M on May 24, 2013 [–]

Yeah, but it you want to get all the emails in a text like "Please contact me at myfakemail@gmail.com. I already sent an email to contact@mycompany.com, but no one replied...", then you would have to use regexp.

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