How to test RegExp

**jigneshjsoni** · 04-19-2012, 05:38 PM

Code:

<html>
	<head>
		<script>
			function testemail(){
			var fld= document.getElementById("input1").value;
			var reg = /^[\w+]@[\w+].com$/i;
			if(reg.test(fld))
			{
				alert("email is ok");
			}
			else
			{
				alert("email is not correct");
			}

			}
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<p>
			<form name="form1" onsubmit="testemail()">
				enter email : <input id="input1" type="text" /> <input id="input2" type="submit" value="Submit" />
			</form>
		</p>
	</body>
</html>

I am trying to test an email ID with above RegExp. I enter a correct email or not, I am always getting message "email is not correct" So RegExp is not working. How can I find out whats wrong with this RegExp ? Is there any tool to figure that out ? I tried with FireBug, but it does not point to whats wrong with RegExp

Thanks

**007Julien** · 04-19-2012, 06:59 PM

Test at first something like this :

Code:

var reg = /^[\w.+-]+@[\w.]+\.com$/i;

With + quantifiers outside the square brackets to allows one or more characters for each class. A back slash is useful to escape the point outside the brackets (I add two points inside the classes but there is other characters to add).

There is many regular expressions (like this according to the RFC 822 grammar for perl) to test email addresses...

For practical use, see this page which give good reasons to take this kind of validation with precautions...

The best test for validation consists to send an email for confirmation !

nb : There is many regular expressions tester on the web (like this one)

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