From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T13:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring

On 9/15/06, Bart Braem <bart.braem@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to validate a user mail address for a fixed domain with the rule
> string =~ /\w+\.\w+/
> this matches firstname.lastname, which is what I want.
> But it also matches fistname.lastname@somedomain.com, which is not what I
> want. Why does that match? I'm having this in Rails, but I guess the
> quoting will not escape @ signs?
>
> Bart
>
>

I'm no regex master but what about:
/^[^@]+/

One or more things thats not an '@' at the beginning of the string?

hth,
-Harold