email validation Syntax error

Asked Feb 25 '13 at 05:59

Active Feb 25 '13 at 06:09

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I am trying to allow all possible characters for an email id during email validation and I am writing it this way-

^(\s)*[a-zA-Z_]{1}(a-zA-Z0-9.\-_`~!#$&amp;%^*()+,=:{}[\]|\\\&lt;>/?,.;'")*[@]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9]*[a-zA-Z0-9.\-+_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]{1}(\s)*$

But I'm getting a syntax error that says

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list and the position it displays is after;

Am I missing something here?

here is the code that contains the pattern. This is being done during struts validation

<field property="email" depends="required,mask">
<arg0 key="alert.user.email" />
<var>
    <var-name>mask</var-name>
    <var-value>^(\s)*[a-zA-Z_]{1}(a-zA-Z0-9.\-_`~!#$&amp;%^*()+,=:{}[\]|\\\&lt;>/?,.'";)*[@]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9]*[a-zA-Z0-9.\-+_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]{1}(\s)*$</var-value>
</var>
</field>

edited Feb 25 '13 at 06:09

asked Feb 25 '13 at 05:59

AlwaysALearner

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Show us the pattern in context — the code that uses it. – Matt Ball Feb 25 '13 at 06:01
@Matt: I've mentioned the pattern above the screenshot.. – AlwaysALearner Feb 25 '13 at 06:04
Why are there HTML entities (`&`, `<`) in the pattern? They definitely do not belong there. This might be a better pattern to use: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2855865/139010 – Matt Ball Feb 25 '13 at 14:29

email validation Syntax error

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