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user279464
user279464

Reputation: 21

How to write regular expression to match free email accounts?

I'm trying to write a regular expression that checks if an email form field contains a free email address, with no luck.

Essentially I need to check if the email contains: hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc in the email field.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3181

Answers (3)

pierroz
pierroz

Reputation: 7870

regex would be sth like: 

[a-zA-Z0-9_\.+]+@(gmail|yahoo|hotmail)(\.[a-z]{2,3}){1,2}

you can add all the other domains you want... does it help you?

Upvotes: -1

brabster
brabster

Reputation: 43590

Have you tried a big ol' disjunction?

i.e.

yahoo\.com|googlemail\.com|blah\.net

Pros: Easy to build, easy to read, explicit.

Cons: Maybe not the most efficient mechanism.

Upvotes: 0

bcosca
bcosca

Reputation: 17555

/\@(hotmail|yahoo|gmail)\.com/

Upvotes: 3

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