Regex Email validation

Question

I use this

@\"^([\\w\\.\\-]+)@([\\w\\-]+)((\\.(\\w){2,3})+)$\"

regexp to validate the email

([\\w\\.\\-]+) - this is f

Answer 1

This does not meet all of the requirements of RFCs 5321 and 5322, but it works with the following definitions.

@"^([0-9a-zA-Z]([\+\-_\.][0-9a-zA-Z]+)*)+"@(([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]*\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,17})$";

Below is the code

const String pattern =
   @"^([0-9a-zA-Z]" + //Start with a digit or alphabetical
   @"([\+\-_\.][0-9a-zA-Z]+)*" + // No continuous or ending +-_. chars in email
   @")+" +
   @"@(([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]*\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,17})$";

var validEmails = new[] {
        "ma@hostname.com",
        "ma@hostname.comcom",
        "MA@hostname.coMCom",
        "m.a@hostname.co",
        "m_a1a@hostname.com",
        "ma-a@hostname.com",
        "ma-a@hostname.com.edu",
        "ma-a.aa@hostname.com.edu",
        "ma.h.saraf.onemore@hostname.com.edu",
        "ma12@hostname.com",
        "12@hostname.com",
};
var invalidEmails = new[] {
        "Abc.example.com",     // No `@`
        "A@b@c@example.com",   // multiple `@`
        "ma...ma@jjf.co",      // continuous multiple dots in name
        "ma@jjf.c",            // only 1 char in extension
        "ma@jjf..com",         // continuous multiple dots in domain
        "ma@@jjf.com",         // continuous multiple `@`
        "@majjf.com",          // nothing before `@`
        "ma.@jjf.com",         // nothing after `.`
        "ma_@jjf.com",         // nothing after `_`
        "ma_@jjf",             // no domain extension 
        "ma_@jjf.",            // nothing after `_` and .
        "ma@jjf.",             // nothing after `.`
    };

foreach (var str in validEmails)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1} ", str, Regex.IsMatch(str, pattern));
}
foreach (var str in invalidEmails)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1} ", str, Regex.IsMatch(str, pattern));
}