Email address regular expression

[Craig Bailey]

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

What's wrong?

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[127.0.0.1]

Craig Bailey wrote:

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

[A-Z] = All characters from A to Z, maybe a \- might help ?

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[Craig Bailey]

In article <Qp*********************@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"127.0.0.1" <newsgroup(at)cr*********@verisign-sux-ijlkl.com> wrote:

Craig Bailey wrote:

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

[A-Z] = All characters from A to Z, maybe a \- might help ?

Aaaahhhh. But a dash doesn't need to be escaped, do it? Are you
suggesting a add a dash to the first part of the expression? Like this?

^([0-9a-z-]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

Of course, that would allow someone to start their address with a dash,
which I'm not certain is allowable in real email addresses.

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[Pedro]

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Craig Bailey wrote:

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

What's wrong?

Doesn't [0-9a-z\.-_] mean: 0 to 9 and a to z and dot to underscore?

try [0-9a-z\._-]
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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 10/06/2003 07:16 AM, Craig Bailey wrote:

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

What's wrong?

Character ranges that include - must start with that character. Take a
look here at this e-mail address validation class that comes with a
suitable regular expression besides the server based e-mail verification
methods.

http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation
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[John Dunlop]

Pedro wrote:

Doesn't [0-9a-z\.-_] mean: 0 to 9 and a to z and dot to underscore?
Yep. That's dot to underscore in "ASCII collating sequence". "Dot
to underscore" matches fifty characters in total, including all
uppercase letters, numbers, and a bunch of others -- but not the
hyphen!
try [0-9a-z\._-]

Or even [\w.-]. ;-)

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[John Dunlop]

Craig Bailey wrote:

Aaaahhhh. But a dash doesn't need to be escaped, do it?
Not necessarily. But in its current position, yes, because it's
indicating a range. The *hyphen* may only be left unescaped "where
it cannot be interpreted as indicating a range".
Of course, that would allow someone to start their address with a dash,
which I'm not certain is allowable in real email addresses.

I am certain it is.

See RFC 2822 for details, especially section 3.4.1.

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[Andy Hassall]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:56:14 -0300, Manuel Lemos <ml****@acm.org> wrote:

Character ranges that include - must start with that character.

Or end with it.

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[Pedro]

John Dunlop wrote:

Or even [\w.-]. ;-)

that will match (in some locales) "josécuña"

ps. hope that gets out ok, in HTML I'd write it as
jos&eacute;cu&ntilde;a

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[John Dunlop]

Pedro wrote:

John Dunlop wrote:

Or even [\w.-]. ;-)
that will match (in some locales) "josécuña"

Ah. Well spotted! I forgot what the intended use was, and
concentrated on the one part. Thanks.
ps. hope that gets out ok

It did.

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[Lothar Scholz]

Craig Bailey <cc*@floydianslip.com> wrote in message news:<cc***********************@news.verizon.net>. ..

I've been using this pattern to verify email addresses:

^([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z\.-_]+)@([0-9a-z\.-_]+)\.([0-9a-z]+)

But I've recently discovered that addresses with a dash in them won't
pass this test.

Seems to me they should pass.

What's wrong?

In the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" there is an approximation
for internet email addresses, emails are to complex to be handed by
regular expressions correctly.

This regular expression is about 4800 characters long.

The best way is to not check any email addresses. Maybe assuming that
there must be a '@' is the only thing. Escpecially now where UTF can
be used in domain names, every [a-z] kind of pattern is simply wrong.

[William Maddler]

Lothar Scholz wrote:

In the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" there is an approximation
for internet email addresses, emails are to complex to be handed by
regular expressions correctly.

I agree...
usually what I check is to have smth before the @ and at least a word after
and that the mail address ends with a valid TLD...

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