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

That regex isn't really complete... in fact... most aren't (check out this article, or this one).

Unless you really enjoy pain, regex isn't the right way to validate an email address.