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Regular Expression for validating email address
-(BOOL) NSStringIsValidEmail:(NSString *)checkString
{
BOOL stricterFilter = YES; // Discussion http://blog.logichigh.com/2010/09/02/validating-an-e-mail-address/
NSString *stricterFilterString = @"[A-Z0-9a-z\\._%+-]+@([A-Za-z0-9-]+\\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}";
NSString *laxString = @".+@([A-Za-z0-9]+\\.)+[A-Za-z]{2}[A-Za-z]*";
NSString *emailRegex = stricterFilter ? stricterFilterString : laxString;
NSPredicate *emailTest = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegex];
return [emailTest evaluateWithObject:checkString];
}
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