Im using this currently :
/^(.*)\+(.*)@gmail.com/
(I'm capturing the text before and after the plus sign in a group)
and it works in most cases such as [email protected] but falls down if I try to match say [email protected]
The repeated + signs seem to screw it up.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
(.*?)\++(.*?)@gmail.com should work.
you need to escape the + sign : /^(.+?)\++(.+?)@gmail.com/
EDIT : your post was misformatted : your + is already escaped
You are not properly detecting the +. Use something like this: ^([^+]+)[+]+([^+]+)@gmail.com
[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}[\+]{0,}[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,}@gmail.com You can use [] with ^ (all the chars but...) e.g.
echo '[email protected]' | perl -p -e 's/^([^\+]*)\+(.*)@gmail.com/$1/' If you don't care about validating the first portion of the address (prior to any '+') you could go with /^([^+]+)(:?+[^+]*)*@gmail.com/ to just the first part.
You may want to do better validation on that to ensure that it is a "valid" account format, according to whatever rules are set forth by RFC.
edit -- asterisks were making a bold statement.
I think this can be simplified a touch:
IF you know the address you're looking for and want to match your address regardless of whether it has a 'plus' tag on it:
bignev(\+.*)*@gmail.com If you only want the ones with the 'plus' tag:
bignev(\+.*)@gmail.com If you have your own domain:
bignev(\+.*)*@everton.com Or to answer the original post specifically:
.*(\+.*)@gmail.com 