Re: Bug in mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el)?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Sep 23 2002, Jesper Harder wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:
[...]
>> Instead of "Harald H.-J. Bongartz" I get "Harald H.":
>>
>> Is this a bug in `mail-extract-address-components' or should I use a
>> different function to get the full name?
>
> In this particular case `gnus-extract-address-components' works better:
[...]
> ==> ("Harald H.-J. Bongartz" "bongie@gmx.net")

Thanks for the hint!

> But usually `mail-extract-address-components' is more reliable (but also
> really complicated).

The code of mail-e-a-c spans more than 700 lines, whereas gnus-e-a-c
has only 27 lines. Therefore it's even more surprising that mail-e-a-c
fails for the given example (assuming it's a valid RFC-822 address),
which probably occurs quite often in real life [1]. mail-e-a-c also
fails for this:

(car (mail-extract-address-components "\"K.-H. Foo\" <foo@bar.invalid>"))
==> nil

Bye, Reiner.

[1] At least in Germany such names are not so rare: Abbreviated forms
    of Karl-Heinz, ...
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