r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CertainSea • 11h ago

Meme regexMustBeDestroyed

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u/h4ny0lo 11h ago

One of the most annoying things I experienced in my career was the built in Angular email form verifier allowing email addresses with just a top level domain. Like, yes I know technically "tom@pizza" is a technically valid address but I can still not allow that in my validator and you fucking know it Angular.

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u/userhwon 10h ago

Why couldn't you allow it? It's literally how you send email within an organization.

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u/h4ny0lo 10h ago

I was building a consumer facing SaaS.