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📨 Validate an email address in Go

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An email address in Golang can be validated using the standard library function mail.ParseAddress. This function parses an RFC 5322 address, but by using it appropriately, we can also check if a string is a valid email address and get it from the "name <local-part@domain>" format.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/mail"
)

func validMailAddress(address string) (string, bool) {
    addr, err := mail.ParseAddress(address)
    if err != nil {
        return "", false
    }
    return addr.Address, true
}

var addresses = []string{
    "foo@gmail.com",
    "Gopher <from@example.com>",
    "example",
}

func main() {
    for _, a := range addresses {
        if addr, ok := validMailAddress(a); ok {
            fmt.Printf("value: %-30s valid email: %-10t address: %s\n", a, ok, addr)
        } else {
            fmt.Printf("value: %-30s valid email: %-10t\n", a, ok)
        }
    }
}

Output:

value: foo@gmail.com                  valid email: true       address: foo@gmail.com
value: Gopher <from@example.com>      valid email: true       address: from@example.com
value: example                        valid email: false     

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