What is the nature of the program which you are writing? From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Matthews Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:58 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Regular expressions to validate Email addresses Hello. I'm probably opening up a can of worms here, since I understand that Email addresses are the most argued over when it comes to regular expressions. I'm just wondering if someone could provide me with a few samples, or point me in the right direction where I can find information on this? Currently I'm leaning towards JavaScript, to pass to the match() method of the String object an argument to attempt to validate the syntax of a mail address. Hope this is making sense. Mark