JavaScript Regular Expression Email Validation [duplicate]

Answer 1

Little late to the party, but here goes nothing...

function isEmailValid(emailAdress) {
    var EMAIL_REGEXP = new RegExp('^[a-z0-9]+(\.[_a-z0-9]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,15})$', 'i');
    return EMAIL_REGEXP.test(emailAdress)
}

http://jsfiddle.net/yrshaikh/xvd6H/

Answer 2

function isEmailAddress(str) {
   var pattern =/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/;
   return pattern.test(str);  // returns a boolean 
}

Answer 3

I have been using this one....

/^[\w._-]+[+]?[\w._-]+@[\w.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/

It allows that + before @ (xyz+abc@xyz.com)

Answer 4

You should bear in mind that a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ., _ and - are not the only valid characters in the start of an email address.

Gmail, for example, lets you put a "+" sign in the address to "fake" a different email (e.g. someone@gmail.com will also get email sent to someone+else@gmail.com).

micky.o'finnagan@wherever.com would not appreciate your code stopping them entering their address ... apostrophes are perfectly valid in email addresses.

The Closure "check" of a valid email address mentioned above is, as it states itself, quite naïve:

http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk/closure/goog/format/emailaddress.js#198

I recommend being very open in your client side code, and then much more heavyweight like sending an email with a link to really check that it's "valid" (as in - syntactically valid for their provider, and also not misspelled).

Something like this:

var pattern = /[^@]+@[-a-z\.]\.[a-z\.]{2,6}/

Bearing in mind that theoretically you can have two @ signs in an email address, and I haven't even included characters beyond latin1 in the domain names!

http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/idns-eu

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx

Answer 5

You may be interested in this question (or this one), which highlights the fact that identifying valid email addresses via regexps is a very hard problem to solve (if at all solvable)

Answer 6

You may be interested in having a look at this page it list regular expressions for validating email address that cover more general cases.