Need help with regex expression

Hello all,
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I'm not very good with writing regular expressions and need some help
with this one. I need to validate an email address which has the full
name of the person appended to the beginning of it. Here is an example
of what I’m trying to validate.
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“firstname lastname” <username@domain.com>
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I need to enforce this format so the web form won’t allow submit
unless it’s like this. So the regex needs to make sure there is a
word, or two words or more, inside of double quotes, then a space,
then angle backet, then email, then closing angle bracket.
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Does anyone have a regex expression that can do this or know how to
write one?

mohaa...@gmail.com wrote:>>>>>
I added a bit to a regular expression I had for email verification:
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^"[^"]+" <[\w\-%~\.]+@[\w\-\.]+\.[\w]{2,4}>$
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Ah, yes. In my haste to write this post I forgot to say that I need
this to validate multiple emails seperated by a semi-colon. I think
this throws a wrench into the problem doesn't it.
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On Jun 19, 4:46Â*am, Göran Andersson <gu...@guffa.comwrote:

on 20-6-2008, mohaa...@gmail.com supposed :
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Not *that* much:
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^"[^"]+" <[\w\-%~\.]+@[\w\-\.]+\.[\w]{2,4}>(\s*;\s*"[^"]+"
<[\w\-%~\.]+@[\w\-\.]+\.[\w]{2,4}>)*$
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original test,
followed by zero or more occurences of
* *optional whitespace, a ';', more optional whitespace and
* *the original test again.
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But maybe the {2,4} multiplier should be adjusted somewhat to at least
{2,6}, as there are now top-level domains of .museum and .travel!
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Hans Kesting
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Hello Hans,
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Thank you so much for getting me this. I'm having a problem with it
though. When I enter the semi-colon at the end to all a second name +
email to be entered it doesn't validate anymore.
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The following doesn't work.
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"firstname lastname" <username@domain.com>;
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I need this to work as well as this.
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"firstname lastname" <username@domain.com>; "firstname lastname"
<username@domain.com>;
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Is this hard to change?
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On Jun 20, 2:57Â*am, Hans Kesting <news.han...@spamgourmet.comwrote: