449758 - Regular Expression validation for email id fails for the second mail ID.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98409

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bestha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Regular Expression validation for email id fails for the second mail ID, 
When Java Script function  ValidateToEmailList is called the list of email ids one at a time is validated, by the Java script function echeck.
The echeck always returns false for the second email id passed even the second email id being valid.

The same function works returns true for second mail id in IE and Safari.


function ValidateToEmailList()
            {
                  var emailids = new Array("[e-mail]","[e-mail]");
                  for(i = 0; i < emailids .length; i++)
                  {
                        if (echeck(emailids [i])== false)
                        {
                              alert("Please enter valid email id(s)")
                              toEmailIds.focus()
                              return false
                        }
                  }
                  return true
            }
            function echeck(str) 
            {
                  var emailRegxp = /^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9_\.\-])*\@(([a-z0-9])+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)+([a-z0-9]{2,4})$/gi;
                  return emailRegxp.test(str);
            }


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Sylvain Pasche]

Using new RegExp() instead of the regexp literal should fix this.