Looking for a regex to match a gmail plus address

Question

Im using this currently :

/^(.*)\\+(.*)@gmail.com/

(I\'m capturing the text before and after the plus sign in a group)

and it works in most

Answer 1

If you don't care about validating the first portion of the address (prior to any '+') you could go with /^([^+]+)(:?+[^+]*)*@gmail.com/ to just the first part.

You may want to do better validation on that to ensure that it is a "valid" account format, according to whatever rules are set forth by RFC.

edit -- asterisks were making a bold statement.