title: What is the correct regular expression for an email address?
body: <p><strong>Duplicate</strong>: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-for-validating-email-addresses">Using a regular expression to validate an email address</a></p>
  
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  <p>There seem to be an awful lot of different variants on this on the web and was wondering if there is a definitive answer?</p>
  
  <p>Preferably using the .net (Regex) dialect of regular expressions.</p>