Want to check whether String contains (not itself) an email address

Asked Dec 03 '18 at 11:35

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I wanted to check whether String contains any(at least one) email address in it or not.

For example,

"My name is Rajnikant Patel and my email address is my@rajnikantpatel.com"

Then Java regex pattern's method matches must return true.

My code snippet is :

String email = "My name is Rajnikant Patel and my email address is my@rajnikantpatel.com";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}");
Matcher mat = pattern.matcher(email);
if(mat.matches()){
    System.out.println("Valid email address");
}else{
    System.out.println("Not a valid email address");
}

asked Dec 03 '18 at 11:35

Rajnikant Patel

see here [link](https://stackoverflow.com/a/8204716/5108737) – Ruslan Dec 03 '18 at 11:37
Maybe you want to use [`mat.find()`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html#find()) instead of `matches`, if you want to find a matching substring inside your longer string. And remove the `^` from the beginning of your regular expression, since that will only match the beginning of the string. – khelwood Dec 03 '18 at 11:37
@Ruslan, its not working. – Rajnikant Patel Dec 03 '18 at 11:39
@khelwood, that worked! – Rajnikant Patel Dec 03 '18 at 11:42

Want to check whether String contains (not itself) an email address

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