Re: Regular expressions - Email Validation

Please ask on the user mailing list.

And keep in mind: you're editing an XML file, so you'll have to escape
your ampersand (& -> &).

HTH,

Phil

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM, seeking_solution
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In struts I have regular expression for validating email like this -
> <constant>
>          <constant-name>EMail</constant-name>
>
> <constant-value>^([a-zA-Z0-9&]([\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9&])[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]([\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])*\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z])[\s]*$</constant-value>
> </constant>
>
> Now I want to allow & in the email. I tried like this
>
> <constant-value>^([a-zA-Z0-9&]([\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9&])[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]([\w\.-&]*[a-zA-Z0-9])*\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z])[\s]*$</constant-value>
>
> But its not working. gives error at deploy time.
>
> Please help
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