regular expression email code js code example

Example 1: email regex javascript

/* Answer to: "email regex javascript" */

ValidateEmail("[email protected]"); // Must be a string

function ValidateEmail(email) {
	var emailformat = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(String(email).toLowerCase());
	if (email.match(emailformat)) {
    	alert("Nice Email!")
      	return true;
    };
    alert("That's not an email?!")
    return (false);
};

Example 2: how to validate an email address in javascript

function validateEmail(email) 
    {
        var re = /\S+@\S+\.\S+/;
        return re.test(email);
    }
    
console.log(validateEmail('[email protected]'));