Regular expression for email validation which accepts '&'

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I am using following regular expression :-

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$pat  = "/^[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~]+(\.[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~]+)*";
$pat .= "@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+([a-z]{2,3}";
$pat .= "|info|arpa|aero|coop|name|museum)$/ix";

But, it is not accepting '&'.

Anyone can help me please. ?

For eg:-
If I give email as 'abs&c@gmail.com'.
It only takes 'abs'.

Posted 31-May-11 20:55pm

khushboo86

Updated 31-May-11 20:58pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jun-11 3:15am

Cannot reproduce the problem, in simple case. Please, a pattern with "&", expected match and where is fails.
--SA

khushboo86 1-Jun-11 3:20am

Have you tried email address contains "&", and it is working ??

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Kim Togo · Answer 1 · 2011-05-31T21:16:00

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I use this regex for validation: ^[\w-\.|!|#|$|%|&|'|*|+|/|=|?|^]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,10}$ (From C#)

See Wiki[^] for more info on valid email address.

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$sourcestring="your source string";
preg_match('/^[\w-\.|!|#|$|%|\&|\'|*|+|\/|=|?|^]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,10}$/',$sourcestring,$matches);
echo print_r($matches,true);

Posted 31-May-11 21:16pm

Kim Togo

Updated 31-May-11 22:25pm

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khushboo86 1-Jun-11 3:22am

Please, can you give me complete regex ??

Kim Togo 1-Jun-11 3:40am

See updated answer.

khushboo86 1-Jun-11 4:15am

It is not working for '&'.

Kim Togo 1-Jun-11 4:24am

See updated answer about PHP regex

khushboo86 1-Jun-11 4:25am

still not... :( :(

Kim Togo 1-Jun-11 7:50am

Weird. Go to this web site: http://www.myregextester.com/
And click Show Code: PHP
Type in regex from solution under PHP code WITH OUT forward slash ( / ) ind the beginning and end.
See picture: http://tinypic.com/r/289ea93/7