Looking for a regex to match a gmail plus address

Im using this currently :

/^(.*)\+(.*)@gmail.com/

(I'm capturing the text before and after the plus sign in a group)

and it works in most cases s开发者_如何学Cuch as test+test@gmail.com but falls down if I try to match say test+++test@gmail.com

The repeated + signs seem to screw it up.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

(.*?)\++(.*?)@gmail.com should work.

you need to escape the + sign : /^(.+?)\++(.+?)@gmail.com/

EDIT : your post was misformatted : your + is already escaped

You are not properly detecting the +. Use something like this: ^([^+]+)[+]+([^+]+)@gmail.com

[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}[\+]{0,}[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,}@gmail.com

You can use [] with ^ (all the chars but...) e.g.

echo 'aaa++++bbb@gmail.com' | perl -p -e 's/^([^\+]*)\+(.*)@gmail.com/$1/'

If you don't care about validating the first portion of the address (prior to any '+') you could go with /^([^+]+)(:?+[^+]*)*@gmail.com/ to just the first part.

You may want to do better validation on that to ensure that it is a "valid" account format, according to whatever rules are set forth by RFC.

edit -- asterisks were making a bold statement.

I think this can be simplified a touch:

IF you know the address you're looking for and want to match your address regardless of whether it has a 'plus' tag on it:

bignev(\+.*)*@gmail.com

If you only want the ones with the 'plus' tag:

bignev(\+.*)@gmail.com

If you have your own domain:

bignev(\+.*)*@everton.com

Or to answer the original post specifically:

.*(\+.*)@gmail.com