I need help with apostrophe in email validation

[davekstl]

I am using this script for email validation and it worked well until...

if (/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(Form1.PriEmail.value))

...apostrophes were introduced. If there is an apostrophe in the address the test fails the address. How do I fix it?

Thanks

[007Julien]

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 and to write, in case of failure, only a warning with something like : your email address seems erroneous !

For example, your test will fails with the top level domain museum or travel which are 6 letters (See this page for the IANA list which could be used on the server).

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

NB : Since it's easy to add apostrophes with something like this : if (/^\w+([\.-']?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(Form1.PriEmail.value))

[davekstl]

The script you inserted did the trick.

[007Julien]

Yes but this form could be better

 if (/^\w+([\.'-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(Form1.PriEmail.value))

To display the hyphen at the end of the sub-pattern (since it has to be escape with a \).

[davekstl]

I just began testing the first version and the second version works better.