Bug #16655: Function for checking if email-adress is valid

From: metz@speedpartner.de Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.1.2 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Function for checking if email-adress is valid There are several reg.exp. around in Internet, but I'd like to see a function which checks if a string is a valid email-adress (is_email or valid_email or so) Here is the regex: ^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@('.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\/0 -9=?A-Z^_a-z{|}~]+\.)'.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_a-z{|}~]+$))' -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16655&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16655&r=submittedtwice