Regex to validate an email address

Question

I am not expert in JavaScript and need to get this regex to work:

function validateEmail(email) { 
    var re = /[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,22}/;
    return re.test(email);
}

Currently this doesn't work fine, even for myemail@hotmail.com.

I don't need a new regex, just few changes to this one to get it to work.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '14 at 22:18

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You need to use the case-insensitive flag, i:

var re = /[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,22}/i;

Without this, it would only match upper-case Latin letters, e.g. MYEMAIL@HOTMAIL.COM.

answered Nov 01 '14 at 22:18

p.s.w.g

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