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]");
>     }
> }
> 
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