使用正则表达式验证电子邮件的最大长度

Question

I find this regular expression for email validation.

[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})

I want max length for email will be 20 character so i change it to :

([_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})){0,20}

but when i entered more than 20 characters,it accept! also I used

^([_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})){0,20}$ 

but it didn t work correctly.I want to use it in java code

Answer 1

You cannot just add {0,20} to the whole regex as it will mean from 0 to 20 occurrence of each email address.

You can use it like this using lookahead to enforce length:

^(?=.{1,20}$)[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$