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

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

Lionel Bouton wrote the following on 22.09.2005 00:43 :

> 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
>>  
>>
>>> needed. All addresses are lowercased before being processed. I removed
>>> it from all your substitution.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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;
>>  
>>
>
> 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;


Sorry, just understood that your regexp reflected your goal.

I've seen GSM related e-mail adresses too. I'm not sure what to do about 
that one.