Force email address

Challenge

You want the respondent to write an e-mail address.The script needs to validate if a string input is in email address format

Example

Code

//function to validate if an email address 
function isEmail(str)
{
	var emailFormat = /^\w(\.?[\w-])*@\w(\.?[\w-])*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}(\.[a-zA-Z]{2})?$/i;
	var emailAdress = str;
	if(emailAdress.search(emailFormat)==-1)
		return false;
	else 
		return true;
}

var normalQuestionCheck = questioncheck;
function extendedQuestionCheck()
{
	 var valid = normalQuestionCheck();
  	 if (valid) 
	 {
      	        var val;
		//The value below is the index value of the sub question where your e-mail question is asked.
		//In this case we use the sub question has index 2 
 		val = document["query"][quest.label + "." + 2].value;
	            	if (val.length > 0)
			valid = isEmail(val);               
	 }
	 if (!valid) 
	 { 
 	        alert('Wrong email address format');
                return false;
         }
	 return true;
}