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Email Regex Tutorial

This tutorial will be looking into the a Regex (regular expression) created to find any email in a text.

Summary

This regex finds emails, but what is an email actually? An email is defined in this case as characters before an @ symbol, with a domain after the @ symbol. (domain being a .com, .org, etc). The regex looks like this

/^([a-z0-9_.-]+)@([\da-z.-]+).([a-z.]{2,6})$/