RE: [PHP] Regex help

Ok, it's not the regexp for detecting email addresses what I need, that's widely published, thanks. I'm using ereg to match this regular expression: (On)[\s\w\d\W\S\D\n]*(wr[i|o]te[s]?:) That will match phrases like "On 8/3/05, Carol Swinehart <cshart@greenapple.edu> wrote:" the type "On date, name <email> wrote or writes:" The thing is I tried this regexp with Regex Coach and it matches fine, but ereg returns no match ereg($regexpstr, $str, $regs) I know there are some comments at php.net about how ereg has some bugs, any idea if this could be one? Tia, Lizet -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Bointon [mailto:marcus@synchromedia.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:57 AM To: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex help On 2 Aug 2005, at 15:12, Robin Vickery wrote: > I don't suppose this is the place for a rant about the futility of > checking email addresses with a regexp? Though I will agree with you to some extent, I've had quite a lot of success with this, which is pretty thorough: ^(?:[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+\.)*[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\- \/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+@(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!\.)){0,61} [a-zA-Z0-9]?\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!$)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?)| (?:\[(?:(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4] \d|25[0-5])\]))$ Which I got from here: http://www.hexillion.com/samples/#Regex Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture marcus@synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php