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Merge pull request TheAlgorithms#501 from baciucristian/email-validation
Modify ValidateEmail.js to accept all suffixes not just '.com'
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String/ValidateEmail.js

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function that takes a string input and return either it is true of false
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a valid email address
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e.g.: mahfoudh.arous@gmail.com -> true
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e.g.: mahfoudh.arous@helsinki.edu -> true
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e.g.: mahfoudh.arous.com ->false
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*/
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const validateEmail = (str) => {
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if (str === '' || str === null) {
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throw new TypeError('Email Address String Null or Empty.')
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}
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if (str.startsWith('@') === true || !str.includes('@') || !str.endsWith('.com')) {
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return false
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}
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return true
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return /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/.test(str)
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}
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export { validateEmail }

String/ValidateEmail.test.js renamed to String/test/ValidateEmail.test.js

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import { validateEmail } from './ValidateEmail'
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import { validateEmail } from '../ValidateEmail'
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describe('Validation of an Email Address', () => {
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it('expects to return false', () => {
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expect(validateEmail('mahfoudh.arous@gmail.com')).toEqual(true)
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})
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it('expects to return true', () => {
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expect(validateEmail('icristianbaciu@.helsinki.edu')).toEqual(true)
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})
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it('expects to throw a type error', () => {
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expect(() => { validateEmail('') }).toThrow('Email Address String Null or Empty.')
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})

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