AS3: Regular Expression Helpers

// REGEX for email validation
function validateEmail(email:String):Boolean {
        var emailExpression:RegExp = /^[a-z][\w.-]+@\w[\w.-]+\.[\w.-]*[a-z][a-z]$/i;
        return ! emailExpression.test(email);
}
// REGEX for phone validation
function validatePhone(phone:String):Boolean {
        var emailExpression:RegExp = /^((\+\d{1,3}(-| )?\(?\d\)?(-| )?\d{1,3})|(\(?\d{2,3}\)?))(-| )?(\d{3,4})(-| )?(\d{4})(( x| ext)\d{1,5}){0,1}$/i;
        return ! emailExpression.test(phone);
}