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Ruby » Development » Utility Regexps 




Validate an email address


def probably_valid?(email)
 valid = '[A-Za-z\d.+-]+' # Commonly encountered email address characters
 (email =~ /#{valid}@#{valid}\.#{valid}/== 0
end

#These give the correct result.
probably_valid? 'jo[email protected]'                # => true
probably_valid? 'joe@examplecom'                 # => false

 














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