Validate Email Address

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Language: Objective-C

Posted by: Black Light

Added: Mar 3, 2013 12:20 PM

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- (BOOL) validateEmail: (NSString *) candidate
{
NSString *emailRegex = @"[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}";
NSPredicate *emailTest = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegex];
return [emailTest evaluateWithObject:candidate];
}