email-address-util

Utilities for working with email addresses

Usage

# Install the package
npm install email-address-util

# Require it in your JS file
const EmailUtil = require("email-address-util");

Validate

Validate that the given string is a valid email address. This method uses the regular expression from W3, then validates the domain against IANA's list of valid TLDs.

EmailUtil.validate("valid@example.com")    # => true
EmailUtil.validate("in(valid@example.com") # => false

Extract

Extract the first email address found in the given string. Uses the same regular expression as validate.

const strWithEmail    = "My email address is jeff@jeff.com";
const strWithoutEmail = "My email address is above";
EmailUtil.extract(strWithEmail)   # => "jeff@jeff.com"
EmailUtil.extract(strWithoutEmai) # => false

Tests

Run tests with npm test.