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Using regular expressions to validate an email

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"> function validateEmail(input) {     var emailPattern = /^\w+@\w+(\.\w{3})$/     if (emailPattern.test(input)) {         document.write("valid")     }     else {         document.write("NOT valid")     } } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM> Please enter an e-mail address and click somewhere else on the page: <INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="25" onBlur="validateEmail(this.value);"> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>