Regex for an email address doesn't work

Question

I\'m trying to check if some email address is correct with the following code :

NSPredicate *regexMail = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@\"SELF MATCHES \'.*@.*         


        

Answer 1

This page has a good explanation of using regular expressions to validate email, as well as some regexes:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

Their expression:

[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?

Seems to be the best tradeoff between thoroughness and correctness.