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Regex - email

This is the email pattern I use to valid email address format. I just want to add "`" to this pattern. Sample john'ona.doe@mysite.com This is a good format.
^([\w\d\-\.]+)@{1}(([\w\d\-]{1,67})|([\w\d\-]+\.[\w\d\-]{1,67}))\.(([a-zA-Z\d]{2,4})(\.[a-zA-Z\d]{2})?)$

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fred&barney@stonehenge.com
is a valid email address that is not recognized by the above pattern

VBdotnet2005

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If that is the case, could you add that also?

David Beveridge

^([\w\d\-\.\`\&]+)@{1}(([\w\d\-]{1,67})|([\w\d\-]+\.[\w\d\-]{1,67}))\.(([a-zA-Z\d]{2,4})(\.[a-zA-Z\d]{2})?)$

sentner

To add characters to the name portion, just add them inside the first set of square brackets. There are a bunch of possible characters missing from the pattern above (including: ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` . { | } ~), please see:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696

That said, your expression does include some unnecessary redundancies (like "\w\d" which can be simplified to just \w). You may need to escape out some of the special characters (possibly including `) but not all of them.

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David Beveridge

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