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Validate an email address
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def probably_valid?(email)
valid = '[A-Za-z\d.+-]+' # Commonly encountered email address characters
(email =~ /#{valid}@#{valid}\.#{valid}/) == 0
end
#These give the correct result.
probably_valid? 'joe@example.com' # => true
probably_valid? 'joe@examplecom' # => false
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