On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:16:15AM -0500, Leonard Burton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know that it is pretty darn impossible to come up with a regular
> expression for validating emails.
>
> How do you all validated emails on form submission?
>
> Is it good just to do something like "/.+@.+[.].+/" ? That (or a
> close derivative) should match that there is at least a @ and a . with
> chars before and after each. I will be sending an email to each new
> registration with a confirmation link.
Since you will be validating emails via a confirmation link, i'd
probably suggest using the minimal testing, I dont think it is
worth the headache. If you become to strict on your regex you
might eliminate something that is valid but the regex thought was
invalid.
At minimum a@xxxx so to modify the regex a bit:
/^.+@.+\..{2,}$/
Curt
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