Checking Mail Address Simply using Perl Regular Expression

Let't check mail address simply using Perl regular expression.

if ($mail =~ /^.+\@.+$/a) {

}

This means $mail is

[one more ASCII]@[one more ASCII]

Improvement

ASCII graphic characters are a little better.

/^\p{PosixGraph}+\@\p{PosixGraph}+$/

Comments

[Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author]

ASCII graphic characters are a little better. Spaces are not good.

/^\p{PosixGraph}+\@\p{PosixGraph}+$/

[Ben Sinclair]

"hello world.."@[IPv6:2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0000:7324].

[Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author]

Oh, this is valid in my regex.

[Aaron Reese]

How far down the regex rabbit hole do you want to go?
Must start with a letter/number
Can have one period before the @
Can't have more than one period
Cannot have spaces
Must be at least one letter/number between period and @
Must be at least one letter/number immediately after @
Must be a period after @
Must be at least two characters after the period
Can be a second period after the min 2 chars if they are co
Must be 2 chars after the the second period
They must match a list of country codes.

[Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author]

Thank you for your information.

[Adam.S]

I prefer the Email::Valid module. And Email::Valid::Loose which used to be very handy with older phone email addresses provided in japan.

[Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author]

Thank you for information.