Regex Email validation

Question

I use this

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

regexp to validate the email

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

Answer 1

This is my favorite approach to this so far:

public static class CommonExtensions
{
    public static bool IsValidEmail(this string thisEmail)
        => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(thisEmail) &&
           new Regex(@"^([\w\.\-]+)@([\w\-]+)((\.(\w){2,3})+)$").IsMatch(thisEmail);
}

Then use the created string extension like:

if (!emailAsString.IsValidEmail()) throw new Exception("Invalid Email");