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  1. Magnolia Form Module
  2. MGNLFORM-251

Make email validation more robust

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    • Improvement
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Minor
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    • 2.2.8
    • field, validation

    Description

      The reg exp used by the form module for email validation is:

      (^$|^\S+@\S+$)
      

      This could be improved.

      Something like:

      [-0-9a-zA-Z.+_]+@[-0-9a-zA-Z.+_]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}
      

      Source: http://blog.trojanhunter.com/2012/09/26/the-best-regex-to-validate-an-email-address/

      Or the same expression used in our ui form module:

      ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\\.\\-+])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$
      

      Found in: com.vaadin.data.validator.EmailValidator

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                rgange Richard Gange
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