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Simple RegEx

Published in: ActionScript 3 

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  1. private function validateEmail(str:String):Boolean {
  2.             var pattern:RegExp = /(\w|[_.\-])+@((\w|-)+\.)+\w{2,4}+/;
  3.             var result:Object = pattern.exec(str);
  4.             if(result == null) {
  5.                 return false;
  6.             }
  7.             return true;
  8.         }
  9.         private function validatePhoneNumber(str:String):Boolean {
  10.             var pattern:RegExp = /^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}$/;
  11.             var result:Object = pattern.exec(str);
  12.             if(result == null) {
  13.                 return false;
  14.             }
  15.             return true;
  16.         }
  17.  
  18. function isValidEmail(email:String):Boolean {
  19.     var emailExpression:RegExp = /^[a-z][\w.-]+@\w[\w.-]+\.[\w.-]*[a-z][a-z]$/i;
  20.     return emailExpression.test(email);
  21. }
  22. //...
  23. trace(isValidEmail("senocular@example.com")); // true
  24. trace(isValidEmail("@example.com")); // false
  25. trace(isValidEmail("senocular@example")); // false
  26. trace(isValidEmail("seno\\cular@example.com")); // false

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