validate multiple email addresses in a textarea

[Pravin Jain]

How do I validate multiple email addresses entered in a textarea.
one per line in the text area.

[Bear Bibeault]

On the client or server? Do you know how you would validate a single such entry? What code have you written so far?

[Pravin Jain]

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
On the client or server? Do you know how you would validate a single such entry? What code have you written so far?

The validation is required on the client side using javascript.
I have a form with several input fields. one of the fields is
for accepting multiple email addresses, one email per line. I
need to check that each line contains a valid email address.
The field may be left blank, but if there is any entry then it
should be a valid email address.

I have got a regex pattern which can validate a single entry.
The regex is as follows:
/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i

will it work if I simply group this regex as follows:
(/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i)*



Thanks
Pravin
[ October 02, 2007: Message edited by: Pravin Jain ]

[Dan Drillich]

I prefer to create several HTML input fields, so each one can be validated and normalized independently.

[Paul Clapham]

Or better still, don't validate e-mail addresses at all.

[Valentin Crettaz]

will it work if I simply group this regex as follows:
(/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i)*


Nope, the ()* must be within the regular expression, i.e. within the /.../

Try this