From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T09:09:11+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression

Hi --

On 13/01/2008, Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hey
>
> im looking to write a regular expression for an email address
> however, i want the first part of the name to be initials (first initial
> and optional middle initial) and a surname
>
> such as
>
> j.m.smith@domain.com
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated

What is it you want to do with this?

a="j.m.smith@domain.com"
p "yes" if a.scan(/\w+\.(\w+\.)??(\w+)??\@(\w+)(.*)/).size > 0

And several other variations thereof.

-- Thomas Adam