Earnest Apathy » Regular Expressions http://blog.pyrolupus.com The meaning of one life Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Email Validation RegExp http://blog.pyrolupus.com/2007/11/email-validation-regexp/ http://blog.pyrolupus.com/2007/11/email-validation-regexp/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:40:34 +0000 pyrolupus http://blog.pyrolupus.com/archives/5/email-validation-regexp/ I had to search my desktop files and email history for forty minutes before I turned this up:

var rfc2822 =
/^[\w!#$%&'*+/=?^`{|}~-]+(?:\.[\w!#$%&'*+/=?^`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])*)+\.(?:[a-z]{2,4}|museum|travel)$/i;


That’s a JavaScript variable declaration, but the RegExp is valid for Perl and can be quickly translated for other languages.

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