/\@(.+?)\s/;

That wouldn't match his example, "fake@email.com" due to the \s and the fact that his example has no whitespace. You also don't need to escape the @.

This:

/@(.*)/

would work.

Note that, without anchoring the end of it, you must .* rather than .*? because the latter can (and would) match nothing (i.e. an empty match) and end.

Of course, I agree that you shouldn't use a regex for this anyway so caveats, disclaimers, etc. :-)

-sauoq
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