Java regex email

Question

First of all, I know that using regex for email is not recommended but I gotta test this out.

I have this regex:

\\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]         


        

Answer 1

You can use this method for validating email address in java.

public class EmailValidator {
    private Pattern pattern;
    private Matcher matcher;

    private static final String EMAIL_PATTERN = 
        "^[_A-Za-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@"
        + "[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$";

    public EmailValidator() {
        pattern = Pattern.compile(EMAIL_PATTERN);
    }

    /**
    * Validate hex with regular expression
    * 
    * @param hex
    *            hex for validation
    * @return true valid hex, false invalid hex
    */
    public boolean validate(final String hex) {

    matcher = pattern.matcher(hex);
    return matcher.matches();

    }
}