I have the following Regular Expression which matches an email address format:
^[\w\.\-]+@([\w\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]+$
This is used for validation with a form using JavaScript. However, this is an optional field. Therefore how can I change this regex to match an email address format, or an empty string?
From my limited regex knowledge, I think \b
matches an empty string, and |
means "Or", so I tried to do the following, but it didn't work:
^[\w\.\-]+@([\w\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]+$|\b