Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:56:12AM +0900, Timothy Hunter wrote: >> /\A[[:alpha:]][-_.[:alpha:]]{3,28}[[:alpha:]]\z/ >> >> >basically I want allow the same pattern allowed for emails but before >> >the @ char :) >> > >> > >> The above regexp does not do this. Certainly you can have numbers in >> your email address, for example. Basically anything is allowed before >> the @. Google "regular expression email address" for extensive >> discussions about this. > > And if you are being pedantic, RFC2822 doesn't allow E-mail addresses to > contain two dots next to each other, unless the local-part is quoted. Ok, thanks all, I need a reg expr do what I described before without the dots, slashes and underscores one after another, and not in the start nor in the end Thnaks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.