nkcmr/the-beast-of-a-regex.js

## the-beast-of-a-regex.js
/**
 * i say updated because previously, the regex wouldn't
 * like if you entered, 'mikey@rocks.email', which with
 * recently added TLDs is a perfectly valid email address.
 * So i looked up the maximum length for a TLD (which is
 * 63 characters), and put it in here. Now it works pretty well.
 * It even acceptes those GMail aliases (mikey+facebook@rocks.email)
 */
var EMAIL_REGEX = /^[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+(\.[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+)*@([a-z0-9_][-a-z0-9_]*(\.[-a-z0-9_]+)*\.({2,63})|([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}))(:[0-9]{1,5})?$/i
	/**
	* i say updated because previously, the regex wouldn't
	* like if you entered, 'mikey@rocks.email', which with
	* recently added TLDs is a perfectly valid email address.
	* So i looked up the maximum length for a TLD (which is
	* 63 characters), and put it in here. Now it works pretty well.
	* It even acceptes those GMail aliases (mikey+facebook@rocks.email)
	*/
	var EMAIL_REGEX = /^[-a-z0-9~!$%^&_=+}{\'?]+(\.[-a-z0-9~!$%^&_=+}{\'?]+)@([a-z0-9_][-a-z0-9_](\.[-a-z0-9_]+)*\.({2,63})\|([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}))(:[0-9]{1,5})?$/i