Regex pattern to validate email addresses

Updated . Posted . Visible to the public. Deprecated.

Our most recent pattern is

EMAIL = /\A[a-z0-9\+\-_\.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

Notes

  • Don't replace [a-z0-9\+\-_\.] with \w ! Otherwise the pattern would allow ßs and many other invalid characters.
  • The email address standard Show archive.org snapshot allows more patterns of emails than those which work in practice (e.g. a@a is valid). In result our pattern is more strictly.
  • Caution: john..doe@example.com and john.doe@example..com are accepted as well.
Martin Straub
Last edit
Michael Leimstädtner
Keywords
regular, expression
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Martin Straub to makandra dev (2012-10-25 15:05)