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Subject: RE: [xsl] Email Address Validation
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:05:06 +0100

> be warned I have not been able to find in 10 years a regex that covers
everything.
> 
> ^.*$
> 

Coincidentally, I discovered yesterday that (at least in Saxon) matches("",
"^.*$", "m") is true under .NET, but false under Java.

The world of regular expressions is indeed a strange one.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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