Email Validation Project

Author

Samridhi Gupta

Date

29-12-2024

Project Overview

This project provides a simple email validation tool that checks if an email address conforms to specific rules. It utilizes regular expressions to verify the validity of the email format.

Rules for a Valid Email Address

• The email address should be at least 6 characters long.
• The first character must be an alphabetic letter (a-z).
• The local part (before the @) should be in lowercase letters (a-z).
• The email address must contain exactly one @ symbol.
• The @ symbol separates the local part from the domain part.
• The local part can include letters, digits (0-9), and special characters like ., _, +, and -, but it should not start or end with a special character.
• The domain part (after the @) must contain at least one dot (.).
• The dot cannot be the first or last character in the domain part.
• The domain part should consist of valid domain name characters (letters, digits, and hyphens).
• The TLD (the part after the last dot) should be at least two characters long (e.g., .com, .org).
• The email address should not contain any spaces or whitespace characters.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• re module (included in Python standard library)

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Samridhi060/email-validation.git
   cd email-validation

2. Run the script:

   python email_validation.py

3. Enter an email address when prompted.

Code Explanation

The script uses the re module to define a regular expression that checks the validity of the email address based on the specified rules. If the email matches the pattern, it is considered valid; otherwise, it is deemed invalid.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the contributors and the Python community for their resources and support.