Hi I need a regular expression for email validation, it should excldue the email addresses with the following special characters.  \|/,;<> and spaces. The rule for validating the email is : Email address must contain a single @, one or more periods, and any standard characters with the exception of spaces and the ...

I am having a problem with my regex. I need to validate a string that begins with a letter a-z and ends with a 6 digit number. This is what I have that is not working:  ^[a-zA-Z]{1}[0-9]{6}&