Regex Email validation

Question

I use this

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

regexp to validate the email

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

Answer 1

Why not use EF6 attribute based e-mail validation?

As you can see above, Regex validation for e-mail always has some hole in it. If you are using EF6 data annotations, you can easily achieve reliable and stronger e-mail validation with EmailAddress data annotation attribute available for that. I had to remove the regex validation I used before for e-mail when I got mobile device specific regex failure on e-mail input field. When the data annotation attribute used for e-mail validation, the issue on mobile was resolved.

public class LoginViewModel
{
    [EmailAddress(ErrorMessage = "The email format is not valid")]
    public string Email{ get; set; }

Answer 2

This one prevents invalid emails mentioned by others in the comments:

Abc.@example.com
Abc..123@example.com
name@hotmail
toms.email.@gmail.com
test@-online.com

It also prevents emails with double dots:

hello..world@example..com

Try testing it with as many invalid email addresses as you can find.

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public static bool IsValidEmail(string email)
{
    return Regex.IsMatch(email, @"\A[a-z0-9]+([-._][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)+[a-z]{2,4}\z")
        && Regex.IsMatch(email, @"^(?=.{1,64}@.{4,64}$)(?=.{6,100}$).*");
}

See validate email address using regular expression in C#.

Answer 3

1

^[\w!#$%&'*+\-/=?\^_`{|}~]+(\.[\w!#$%&'*+\-/=?\^_`{|}~]+)*@((([\-\w]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,4})|(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}))$

2

^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\""]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\""]+)*)|(\"".+\""))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$

Answer 4

Regex Email Pattern:

^(?:[\\w\\!\\#\\$\\%\\&\\'\\*\\+\\-\\/\\=\\?\\^\\`\\{\\|\\}\\~]+\\.)*[\\w\\!\\#\\$\\%\\&\\'\\*\\+\\-\\/\\=\\?\\^\\`\\{\\|\\}\\~]+@(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\\-](?!\\.)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?\\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\\-](?!$)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?)|(?:\\[(?:(?:[01]?\\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\.){3}(?:[01]?\\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\]))$

Answer 5

It has taken many attempts to create an email validator which catches nearly all worldwide requirements for email.

Extension method you can call with:

myEmailString.IsValidEmailAddress();

Regex pattern string you can get by calling:

var myPattern = Regex.EmailPattern;

The Code (mostly comments):

    /// <summary>
    /// Validates the string is an Email Address...
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="emailAddress"></param>
    /// <returns>bool</returns>
    public static bool IsValidEmailAddress(this string emailAddress)
    {
        var valid = true;
        var isnotblank = false;

        var email = emailAddress.Trim();
        if (email.Length > 0)
        {
            // Email Address Cannot start with period.
            // Name portion must be at least one character
            // In the Name, valid characters are:  a-z 0-9 ! # _ % & ' " = ` { } ~ - + * ? ^ | / $
            // Cannot have period immediately before @ sign.
            // Cannot have two @ symbols
            // In the domain, valid characters are: a-z 0-9 - .
            // Domain cannot start with a period or dash
            // Domain name must be 2 characters.. not more than 256 characters
            // Domain cannot end with a period or dash.
            // Domain must contain a period
            isnotblank = true;
            valid = Regex.IsMatch(email, Regex.EmailPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase) &&
                !email.StartsWith("-") &&
                !email.StartsWith(".") &&
                !email.EndsWith(".") && 
                !email.Contains("..") &&
                !email.Contains(".@") &&
                !email.Contains("@.");
        }

        return (valid && isnotblank);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Validates the string is an Email Address or a delimited string of email addresses...
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="emailAddress"></param>
    /// <returns>bool</returns>
    public static bool IsValidEmailAddressDelimitedList(this string emailAddress, char delimiter = ';')
    {
        var valid = true;
        var isnotblank = false;

        string[] emails = emailAddress.Split(delimiter);

        foreach (string e in emails)
        {
            var email = e.Trim();
            if (email.Length > 0 && valid) // if valid == false, no reason to continue checking
            {
                isnotblank = true;
                if (!email.IsValidEmailAddress())
                {
                    valid = false;
                }
            }
        }
        return (valid && isnotblank);
    }

    public class Regex
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Set of Unicode Characters currently supported in the application for email, etc.
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly string UnicodeCharacters = "À-ÿ\p{L}\p{M}ÀàÂâÆæÇçÈèÉéÊêËëÎîÏïÔôŒœÙùÛûÜü«»€₣äÄöÖüÜß"; // German and French

        /// <summary>
        /// Set of Symbol Characters currently supported in the application for email, etc.
        /// Needed if a client side validator is being used.
        /// Not needed if validation is done server side.
        /// The difference is due to subtle differences in Regex engines.
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly string SymbolCharacters = @"!#%&'""=`{}~\.\-\+\*\?\^\|\/\$";

        /// <summary>
        /// Regular Expression string pattern used to match an email address.
        /// The following characters will be supported anywhere in the email address:
        /// ÀàÂâÆæÇçÈèÉéÊêËëÎîÏïÔôŒœÙùÛûÜü«»€₣äÄöÖüÜß[a - z][A - Z][0 - 9] _
        /// The following symbols will be supported in the first part of the email address(before the @ symbol):
        /// !#%&'"=`{}~.-+*?^|\/$
        /// Emails cannot start or end with periods,dashes or @.
        /// Emails cannot have two @ symbols.
        /// Emails must have an @ symbol followed later by a period.
        /// Emails cannot have a period before or after the @ symbol.
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly string EmailPattern = String.Format(
            @"^([\w{0}{2}])+@{1}[\w{0}]+([-.][\w{0}]+)*\.[\w{0}]+([-.][\w{0}]+)*$",                     //  @"^[{0}\w]+([-+.'][{0}\w]+)*@[{0}\w]+([-.][{0}\w]+)*\.[{0}\w]+([-.][{0}\w]+)*$",
            UnicodeCharacters,
            "{1}",
            SymbolCharacters
        );
    }

Answer 6

Just let me know IF it doesn't work :)

public static bool isValidEmail(this string email)
{

    string[] mail = email.Split(new string[] { "@" }, StringSplitOptions.None);

    if (mail.Length != 2)
        return false;

    //check part before ...@

    if (mail[0].Length < 1)
        return false;

    System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+$");
    if (!regex.IsMatch(mail[0]))
        return false;

    //check part after @...

    string[] domain = mail[1].Split(new string[] { "." }, StringSplitOptions.None);

    if (domain.Length < 2)
        return false;

    regex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+$");

    foreach (string d in domain)
    {
        if (!regex.IsMatch(d))
            return false;
    }

    //get TLD
    if (domain[domain.Length - 1].Length < 2)
        return false;

    return true;

}