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most of the crazy email regexes found here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/how-to-validate-a... fail to validate in the input field


Only regular expressions[0] can compile to FST's; Perl-style regexes aren't regular.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language


That's probably, because the regexes you linked to are Perl-flavoured regexes, whereas this website seems to use the "Unix Extended" variant of regex.


If you want crazy, you should look up RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags.




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