Validating e-mail with regular expression VB.Net

Question

I\'m working on a small project in VB.Net where I get a input from a textbox, and need to verify that this is an e-email address.

I found this expression \"^[_a-z0-9

Answer 1

There is a great website for this kind of thing, http://regexlib.com/. Not only does it have a tester application where you can paste in a regular expression and test it, but there is also a library of regular expressions you can use with community feedback on their validity, etc. I'm not a regex guru, so I go here when I need a quick regular expression.

Also, if you are thinking of developing regular expressions yourself, there is an excellent tool called Regex Buddy that will allow you to create and test your regular expressions on the fly using an easy to understand English interpretation of your regex.