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What exactly is then Exact Regular Expression? #2291

Closed sunilpandya closed 3 weeks ago

sunilpandya commented 3 weeks ago

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I am testing following Regular expression for testing email /^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$/gm email sunilpandya@hotmail.com sunil.pandya02@gmail.com But your Tester says no match found then what is the exact regular expression, all programmer for php Regular expression suggest above Regular Expression for PHP

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working-name commented 3 weeks ago

Hi @sunilpandya,

The regular expression you pasted has ^ and $ which mean start of line and end of line respectively, given that the /m flag is on. Therefore you'd have to have a single email address per line, to test if it matches.

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