Victor, I'm not sure if it's correct or incorrect as far as the definition, but it would appear the "-" after the 9 isn't being treated as a character, but a range.
The following seems to give your desired result. "^[_A-Za-z0-9\\-]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9\\-]+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\\.[A-Za-z0-9\\-]+)*$" Perhaps someone more knowledgeable with regexp than myself could tell you if it's the definition that's incorrect, or the implementation. Cheers, Aaron On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:36, Victor Okunev wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to verify e-mail address format using the following regular > expression: > > "^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*$" > > I am getting different results when I use SDK 1.2.4 and Apache Regexp. It seems > that the latter is less strict. For example, both statements: > > new RE(regex).match(fred&[EMAIL PROTECTED]); > new RE(regex).match("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > > return true, which is not what I expect. > > I am sure I am doing something wrong, but what? > > Thanks, > > -- Victor > > > ------------- Code example -------------- > > import org.apache.regexp.*; > import junit.framework.TestCase; > > public class Driver extends TestCase { > > protected String regex = > "^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*$"; > > public Driver(String name) { > super(name); > } > > private void assertNoMatch(String email) throws Exception { > assertFalse("email.matches(\"" + email + "\")", email.matches(regex)); > assertFalse("new RE(regex).match(\"" + email + "\")", new > RE(regex).match(email)); > } > > private void assertMatch(String email) throws Exception { > assertTrue("email.matches(\"" + email + "\")", email.matches(regex)); > assertTrue("new RE(regex).match(\"" + email + "\")", new > RE(regex).match(email)); > } > > public void test() throws Exception { > assertMatch("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > assertNoMatch("fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > assertNoMatch("fred&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > assertNoMatch("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > assertNoMatch("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); > } > } > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aaron Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Rock Networks, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]