82726 - Regex [m-zM-Z].*@netscape.com matches [e-mail]

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[selmer (gone)]

Character class regular expressions seem to be broken.  The one listed in the
summary seemed to behave like ".*" rather than as a character class.

Comment 1

[Jacob Steenhagen]

That's because it's supposed to...  this regexp has basically three parts.

[m-zM-Z]        - Matches the first "t" in attinasi
.*              - Matches "tinasi"
@netscape.com   - Matches "@netscape.com"

I would guess you're trying to only match adresses that start with "m-z"
(regardless of case) in which case you'd want your expression to be:
^[m-zM-Z].*@netscape.com$

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'm with Jake, I don't see a problem here.  Just needs a different regexp :)

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

Doh!  (Hand slaps head.)

Thanks for having such a good obvious detector :-)

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

V.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE