Java regex email

Question

First of all, I know that using regex for email is not recommended but I gotta test this out.

I have this regex:

\\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]         


        

Answer 1

FWIW, here is the Java code we use to validate email addresses. The Regexp's are very similar:

public static final Pattern VALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_REGEX = 
    Pattern.compile("^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,6}$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

public static boolean validate(String emailStr) {
        Matcher matcher = VALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_REGEX.matcher(emailStr);
        return matcher.find();
}

Works fairly reliably.