Using EmailValidation in C

The other day I was working on the email validations, and I came across this beautifully created nuget package called EmailValidation.

So here’s the link to it.

Now, the MSDN blog page has a short list of a few email addresses that can be used to validate this.

I just copied those and checked. This package works great!

So in a case where someone is looking out for this, try this.

static void Main()
{

var listOfValidEmails = new List<string>
{
“email@domain.com”,
“firstname.lastname@domain.com”,
“email@subdomain.domain.com”,
“firstname+lastname@domain.com”,
“email@123.123.123.123”,
“email@[123.123.123.123]”,
“\”email\”@domain.com”,
“1234567890@domain.com”,
“email@domain-one.com”,
“_______@domain.com”,
“email@domain.name”,
“email@domain.co.jp”,
“firstname-lastname@domain.com”
};

var listOfInvalidEmails = new List<string>
{
“plainaddress”,
“#@%^%#$@#$@#.com”,
“@domain.com”,
“Joe Smith <email@domain.com>”,
“email.domain.com”,
“email@domain@domain.com”,
“.email@domain.com”,
“email.@domain.com”,
“email..email@domain.com”,
“あいうえお@domain.com”,
“email@domain.com (Joe Smith)”,
“email@domain”,
“email@-domain.com”,
“email@domain.web”,
“email@111.222.333.44444”,
“email@domain..com”,
};

foreach (var email in listOfValidEmails)
{
Console.WriteLine($”{email} is {(EmailValidator.Validate(email) ? “valid” : “invalid”)}!”);
}

Console.WriteLine(“==============================================================================”);

foreach (var email in listOfInvalidEmails)
{
Console.WriteLine($”{email} is {(EmailValidator.Validate(email) ? “valid” : “invalid”)}!”);
}

Console.ReadKey();
}

This is quicker to use like just import a nuget and you are good to go. In my opinion this covers most of the scenarios for email validation.

One interesting thing I wanted to try is using a regex for all these and then try using pattern matching to check two things. One that all the email scenarios are covered and two, which approach is faster.

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