String.prototype.trim = function() {
 // skip leading and trailing whitespace
 // and return everything in between
  var x=this;
  x=x.replace(/^\s*(.*)/, "$1");
  x=x.replace(/(.*?)\s*$/, "$1");
  return x;
}

function validateEmail(str) {
    //Validating the email field
    var re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/
    if (! str.match(re)) {
        return (false);
    }
    return(true);
}