Regex Email validation

Question

I use this

@\"^([\\w\\.\\-]+)@([\\w\\-]+)((\\.(\\w){2,3})+)$\"

regexp to validate the email

([\\w\\.\\-]+) - this is f

Answer 1

Why not use EF6 attribute based e-mail validation?

As you can see above, Regex validation for e-mail always has some hole in it. If you are using EF6 data annotations, you can easily achieve reliable and stronger e-mail validation with EmailAddress data annotation attribute available for that. I had to remove the regex validation I used before for e-mail when I got mobile device specific regex failure on e-mail input field. When the data annotation attribute used for e-mail validation, the issue on mobile was resolved.

public class LoginViewModel
{
    [EmailAddress(ErrorMessage = "The email format is not valid")]
    public string Email{ get; set; }