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.net 2.0 regular expression

Evil Phil · 2006-12-13 16:05:10

\w+([-+.']\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)* Above is an expression to validate a given email address as being in the correct format. What I want to do now is make sure the address is at least 6 characters long as well. Any ideas?

13-12-2006 4:05pm

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\w+([-+.']\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*

Above is an expression to validate a given email address as being in the correct format. What I want to do now is make sure the address is at least 6 characters long as well. Any ideas?

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#2 13-12-2006 4:27pm

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REF:
[url]http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html[/url]

{n,} where n >= 1


Repeats the previous item at least n times. Greedy, so as many items as possible will be matched before trying permutations with less matches of the preceding item, up to the point where the preceding item is matched only n times.

you will have to tweak ur expression a little

dont look here
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html :-)

If you dont have it use this
http://renschler.net/RegexBuilder/

#3 13-12-2006 5:30pm

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Thank for that. I get that {n,m} is going to have to go into the expression somewhere. I just can't work out where

Anywho, I shall persevere ...

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