AS3 Email Validation - ActionScript 3 Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 19915

at November 3, 2009 12:05 by Winkyboy

Initial Code

*/ syntax:
if (!isValidEmail("my_NON_email.com")) {
    trace("FAIL");
}
*/

private function isValidEmail(email:String):Boolean {
    var emailExpression:RegExp = /([a-z0-9._-]+?)@([a-z0-9.-]+)\.([a-z]{2,4})/;
    return emailExpression.test(email);
}

Initial URL

http://www.lukegill.com/blog/as3-email-validation/

Initial Description

The source below is the function from the website with the corrected regular expression found in the site's comments. This is a nigh-one-line function for validating a string as an email address.

Initial Title

AS3 Email Validation

Initial Tags

form, email, post, validation

Initial Language

ActionScript 3

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