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Created October 30, 2013 15:33
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Try period-laced variations of an input email
validateEmail = function(email) {
var re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
return re.test(email);
}
emailPeriodPossibilities = function(str) {
if(!validateEmail(str)) { return false }
var name = str.match(/^([^@]*)@/)[1];
var domain = str.match(/^([^@]*)@(.*)/)[2];
matches = [];
for(var i=1;i<name.length;i++) {
var firstHalf = name.substr(0,i);
var secondHalf = name.substr(i);
matches.push(firstHalf+'.'+secondHalf+'@'+domain);
}
return matches;
};
var e = emailPeriodPossibilities('[email protected]');
console.log(e);
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