[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am changing a system developed by other company. > > This system uses Jakarta Regexp to validate a e-mail. Now I need to change > this to alow a e-mail address like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Actual Regexp : "^\w+(\.\w+)*(\_\w+)[EMAIL > PROTECTED](\_\w+)*(\.\w+)+(\_\w+)*$" > > I am trying this but not works: > "^\w+(\.\w+)*(\-+)*(\_\w+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\_\w+)*(\-+)*(\.\w+)+(\_\w+)*$" > > Could you help me ??
See http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/apidocs/ _ (underscore) is not a metacharacter and doesn't need to be escaped with \ (backslash). And \w matches underscore as well as letters and digits. So the original regexp should probably be: ^\w+(\.\w+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.\w+)*$ You want to allow - (hyphen) as well as underscore and alphanumeric characters within words, so just change \w to (\w|-): ^(\w|-)+(\.(\w|-)+)*@(\w|-)+(\.(\w|-)+)*$ -- Kevin Rodgers --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
