A Regular Expression for valid email addresses

I’ve used this snippet quite a lot lately when developing AS3 projects:

private function isValidEmailAddress( s : String ) : Boolean
{
var pattern : RegExp = /(?:\w|[_.\-])+@(?:(?:\w|-)+\.)+\w{2,4}/g;
return pattern.test(s);
}

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