Boris Penck 0bp
cmlenz
/ gist:8ef4ebdab696fc24335e
Created
May 5, 2014 12:25
Using the data detector API for email validation. Still probably uses regular expression under the covers (NSDataDetector is a NSRegularExpression subclass), but at least uses a system method instead of a hand-coded regex pattern.
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| - (BOOL)isValidEmailAddress:(NSString *)text | |
| { | |
| NSError *error = NULL; | |
| NSRange textRange = {0, [text length]}; | |
| NSDataDetector *detector = [NSDataDetector dataDetectorWithTypes:NSTextCheckingTypeLink error:&error]; | |
| if (!detector) { | |
| NSLog(@"Could not instantiate link detector for email validation: %@", error); | |
| return NO; | |
| } |