On Apr 15, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Michael Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to validate email addresses in Core Data but the regular
> expression I'm using doesn't seem to work even though it looks correct. I'm
> using the following expression:
>
> ^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$
>
You cannot validate emails using a regular expression. They cannot describe all
valid email addresses.
Even as a basic sanity check, your regexp is incorrect. It fails to allow for
plus signs, for example, thus prohibiting use of Gmail's plus-addressing
feature, which sends all mail addressed to [email protected] to
[email protected].
--Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________
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