E-Mail validation with Java and regular expressions (regex)

With a few lines of code you can check if an E-Mail address ist valid or not. The most import part ist our pattern:

String pattern = "([a-z0-9_.-]+@[a-z0-9-]+\\.[a-z]{2,6})";

import java.util.regex.*;


public class EmailCheck {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String eMail = "youremailyoursite.com"; 
		String pattern = "([a-z0-9_.-]+@[a-z0-9-]+\\.[a-z]{2,6})";

		if(eMail.matches(pattern)){

			System.out.println("Your E-Mail address is valid");

		}else{

			System.out.println("You entered a not valid E-Mail address");

		}
	}
}