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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Expected regex syntax to validate Liferay form fields

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • Facing invalid error message on form UI while working with the 'Regex Expressions' to validate the fields even though right email id is entered.
    • Issue encounters while using the below regex to validate an email field
      • /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/ 
      • ^[\\w!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\\.[\\w!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$
      • ^[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*$

Environment

  • Liferay 7.2

Resolution

  • Forms understand a specific format of regex based on Java syntax.
  • In this context, it is necessary to remove the start and end bars of the regular expression
    • Error syntax :  /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/ 
    • Working syntax : ^\w+([\.-]?\w+)@\w+([\.-]?\w+)(\.\w{2,3})+$
  • Avoid extra backslashes before metacharacters for character classes such as \w
    • Error syntaxes:
      • ^[\\w!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\\.[\\w!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$
      • ^[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*$ 
    • Working syntaxes
      • ^[\w!#$%&'*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\.[\w!#$%&'*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$
      • ^[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9_!#$%&’*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*$

Additional Information

  • The regex provided for the input field of the email type.

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