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AS3 Email Validation

/ Published in: ActionScript 3

The source below is the function from the website with the corrected regular expression found in the site's comments. This is a nigh-one-line function for validating a string as an email address.

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*/ syntax:
if (!isValidEmail("my_NON_email.com")) {
    trace("FAIL");
}
*/
 
private function isValidEmail(email:String):Boolean {
    var emailExpression:RegExp = /([a-z0-9._-]+?)@([a-z0-9.-]+)\.([a-z]{2,4})/;
    return emailExpression.test(email);
}