Answer by Luna for How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?

The HTML5 spec suggests a simple regex for validating email addresses:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/

This intentionally doesn't comply with RFC 5322.

Note: This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for e-mail addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the @ character), too vague (after the @ character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.

The total length could also be limited to 254 characters, per RFC 3696 errata 1690.