The purpose of this tutorial is to focus on a specific regular expression (regex) that matches an email. It will break down each part of the regex into its individual component. A regular expression, regex for short, is a series of characters that are used to identify certain pattern criteria. Regex is beneficial in coding for its ease of use across multiple programming languages, for tasks such as validations, finding strings, and replacing strings, etc.
A regular expression, regex for short, is a series of characters that are used to identify certain pattern criteria. Regex is beneficial in coding for its ease of use across multiple programming languages, for tasks such as validations, finding strings, and replacing strings, etc.
The tutorial will focus on the following regex:
/^([a-z0-9_\.-]+)@([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})$/
This regex can be used to verify an email address. The tutorial will seperate this regex