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

import java.util.Scanner;

public class CheckingTheEmailPassword {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String email = null;
        String password = null;
        Boolean password_valid = false;
        Boolean email_valid = false;

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        do {
            System.out.println("Enter your email: ");
            email = input.nextLine();

            System.out.println("Enter your passsword: ");
            password = input.nextLine();

            // checks for words,numbers before @symbol and between "@" and ".".
            // Checks only 2 or 3 alphabets after "."
            if (email.matches("[\\w]+@[\\w]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}"))
                email_valid = true;
            else
                email_valid = false;

            // checks for NOT words,numbers,underscore and whitespace.
            // checks if special characters present
            if ((password.matches(".*[^\\w\\s].*")) &&
            // checks alphabets present
                    (password.matches(".*[a-zA-Z].*")) &&
                    // checks numbers present
                    (password.matches(".*[0-9].*")) &&
                    // checks length
                    (password.length() >= 8))
                password_valid = true;
            else
                password_valid = false;

            if (password_valid && email_valid)
                System.out.println(" Welcome User!!");
            else {
                if (!email_valid)
                    System.out.println(" Re-enter your email: ");
                if (!password_valid)
                    System.out.println(" Re-enter your password: ");
            }

        } while (!email_valid || !password_valid);

        input.close();

    }

}

Answer 2

FWIW, here is the Java code we use to validate email addresses. The Regexp's are very similar:

public static final Pattern VALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_REGEX = 
    Pattern.compile("^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,6}$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

public static boolean validate(String emailStr) {
        Matcher matcher = VALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_REGEX.matcher(emailStr);
        return matcher.find();
}

Works fairly reliably.

Answer 3

Modification of Armer B. answer which didn't validate emails ending with '.co.uk'

public static boolean emailValidate(String email) {
    Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("^([\\w-\\.]+){1,64}@([\\w&&[^_]]+){2,255}(.[a-z]{2,3})+$|^$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(email);

    return matcher.find();
}

Answer 4

Don't. You will never end up with a valid expression.

For example these are all valid email addresses:

"Abc\@def"@example.com
"Fred Bloggs"@example.com
"Joe\\Blow"@example.com
"Abc@def"@example.com
customer/department=shipping@examp­ le.com
$A12345@example.com
!def!xyz%abc@example.com
_somename@example.com
matteo(this is a comment).corti@example.com
root@[127.0.0.1]

Just to mention a few problems:

• you don't consider the many forms of specifying a host (e.g, by the IP address)
• you miss valid characters
• you miss non ASCII domain names

Before even beginning check the corresponding RFCs

Answer 5

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();

    }
}

Answer 6

That's because you are forgetting case insensitivity :

Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("\\b[\\w.%-]+@[-.\\w]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}\\b");

This matches your example, although it ignores many valid e-mails.