Re: Validating Email addrs

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@a.ab so to modify the regex a bit: /^.+@.+\..{2,}$/ Curt --