simple method that checks text is email with regular expression

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Published on 2010-06-07T16:03:46Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 16:12 UTC
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Can't believe how difficult this seems to be all I want to is to validate a user inout using javascript to make sure that it is an email address. But can't get it to work:

I am using:

//validates a regulaer expression
Utilities2.prototype.validateEmail = function(stringToValidateArg)
{

    alert('about to check regexp');

    var regExpPattern = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/;

    alert(regExpPattern.test(stringToValidateArg));

}

But this always returns false, any ideas why is it because of the regular expression?

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