AS3 Email Validation Code Snippets - Regular Expression

function isValidEmail(email:String):Boolean {    
var emailExpression:RegExp = /^[a-z][\w.-]+@\w[\w.-]+\.[\w.-]*[a-z][a-z]$/i;
 
return emailExpression.test(email);
 
}
 
//...
 
trace(isValidEmail("senocular@example.com")); // true
 
trace(isValidEmail("@example.com")); // false
 
trace(isValidEmail("senocular@example")); // false
 
trace(isValidEmail("seno\\cular@example.com")); // false

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