Re: ereg matching email address

At 16:23 6-9-00 +0100, David Newcomb wrote:

Even better, try: if ($email != "" && !ereg('^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'. '@'. '[-!#$%&\'*+\\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+\.'. '[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$', $email))

    echo "Invalid email address";

        function Validate_Email ($email) {
                return(preg_match("'^[a-z0-9_.=-]+@(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)+([a-z]{2,3})\$'i", $email));
        }

hth, David. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jochen Kächelin <info@bemorph.de> To: GENERAL LIST <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:40 PM Subject: AW: [PHP] ereg matching email address try this function: function checkemail($email) { if (eregi("(@.*@)|(\.\.)|(@\.)|(\.@)|(^\.)", $email) || !eregi ("^.+\@(\[?)[-a-zA-Z0-9\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$",

                      $email)) {     return(false);   }
else  {     list($user, $domain) = explode("@", $email);

                        if ((!eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+$", $user))

||(!eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+$", $domain))) {

                      return false;  }

else {return(true); }

                      }

}

-----Ursprngliche Nachricht----- Von: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 5. September 2000 23:24 An: php-general@lists.php.net; kris@grinz.com Betreff: Re: [PHP] ereg matching email address You can port it from perl if you wish :-) http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/email-opt.pl

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