Regexp to check the validity of an email address

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Regexp to check the validity of an email address

Author: Jonathan Lalou | March 31, 2007

Here is the regexp that an email address must match to be valid. You can adapt it owing to your prefered coding language 😉

\w-+(\.\w-+)*@\w+(\.\w+)*\.a-zAZ{2,4}

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