Regular expression 1

[bazil2]

(Elementary user)

Hello,

Can anyone help me with the correct syntax for a regular expression?

Part of the script I am writing must evaluate the user's email address against a regular expression and it must be:

'any user' @ 'any country' followed by 'acme.com':

someuser@country.acme.com

[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z]+\.[acme]{4}+\.[com]{3}

Is my approach correct?

Best regards

 

[Annihilannic]

Can they really have all of those symbols in their username?

For the latter part you should just use \.acme\.com$, otherwise "came.moc" would also match (not that anyone is likely to try that, but...). The $ ties it to the end of the string to prevent them adding .xx country codes to the end. You should probably also prefix the entire thing with ^ as well to tie it to the beginning.

Annihilannic
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[bazil2]

Thank you so much; I tried it out immediately and it works fine!

Best regards