Re: Valid email address syntax script?
| From: | Matthew Weier O'Phinney | Date: | Tue, 03 May 2005 18:18:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Valid email address syntax script? | ||
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* Jm <frawst1@gmail.com>:
> Does anyone have a nice email address syntax checking script they'd
> like to share? Regular expression-based anyone? TIA.
I use the following regex:
preg_match('/[^@\s]+@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}$/i', $email)
I believe I got it out of the PHP Cookbook, by David Sklar, but I can't
remember for certain. It's not 100% accurate, but I rarely have
complaints from users whose emails don't validate.
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