My Workplace's Diabolical Regex For Matching E-Mail Formats

My Workplace's Diabolical Regex For Matching E-Mail Formats
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SWEET MOTHER OF PERL! That regex is not validating emails—it's summoning a demon from the seventh circle of programming hell! 😱

Look at that monstrosity! It's like someone had a seizure on their keyboard while simultaneously trying to solve world hunger and decrypt alien transmissions. This is what happens when the regex author was clearly paid by the character and had a vendetta against future developers.

And the error code? 32001? That's just code for "we've lost all hope and sanity in this codebase." Anyone who claims to understand this abomination is either lying or needs immediate psychiatric evaluation!