Re: [Sqlgrey-users] Improved dynamic/one-shot email address regex

[Lionel B. <lio...@bo...>]

Jeff Rice wrote the following on 21.09.2005 18:58 :

>Lionel Bouton wrote:
> > Good, I believe this is useful. Note: the case insensitive match isn't
>  
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>>needed. All addresses are lowercased before being processed. I removed
>>it from all your substitution.
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>Good to know.  The other VERP I am experimenting with deals with a
>number of emails I get that don't contain tell-tale signs (like -,_, or
>.) but are otherwise one-shot emails.  At the moment, I am assuming that
>if an email name contains more than 7 consecutive digits, the whole name
>should be masked.  I have never seen a normal email account with that
>many digits in a row.
>
># mask long numeric sequences
>$user =~ s/.*[0-9]{7,}.*/#/g;
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>

Doesn't that simply replace any string with at least seven successive  
numerical characters by a sharp?

I would have used:

$user =~ s/[0-9]{7,}/#/g;


Lionel.