Best Regular Expression for Email Validation in C#
Email address: RFC 2822 Format
Matches a normal email address. Does not check the top-level domain.
Requires the "case insensitive" option to be ON.
[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?
Usage :
bool isEmail = Regex.IsMatch(emailString, @"\A(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)\Z", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
First option (bad because of throw-catch, but MS will do work for you):
bool IsValidEmail(string email)
{
try {
var mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(email);
return true;
}
catch {
return false;
}
}
Second option is read I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC and RFC specification
This C# function uses a regular expression to evaluate whether the passed email address is syntactically valid or not.
public static bool isValidEmail(string inputEmail)
{
string strRegex = @"^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}" +
@"\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\" +
@".)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$";
Regex re = new Regex(strRegex);
if (re.IsMatch(inputEmail))
return (true);
else
return (false);
}