Re: email validation string.

# dreasi0n.php.net@gmail.com / 2007-01-19 15:43:32 +0000: > > > >>>1. Why did you remove the backslash? (the original was correct) > >>> > >>I have a regular expression tester plugin in firefox and it validates > >>Ok with the expression he provided. > >> > >JavaScript is *not* PHP. > > As far as I can read, I never talked about JavaScript... > Maybe the fact that I talked about a browser made you think I was > using Java. NO! I'm not. This is a php list and I gave my answer > based on that. This plugin I was talking about uses PHP/5.2.0 JavaScript is *not* Java. ;) But ok, sorry about the assumption. Where can I check out the plugin? > In either case... Aren't both expressions supposed to validate > an e-mail?? PHP uses one of two sets of special characters depending on whether you use single or double quotes, and leaves a single backslash preceeding a non-special character intact. PCRE removes backslashes if they're followed by non-special characters (but see /X). IOW, as opposed to PHP, PCRE will reduce \x to x for any x that's not special. Use \\x if you want \x. PHP will, however, reduce \\x to \x, since \ is special. Relying on PHP's behavior with ordinary-x \x in a PCRE introduces another grammar to the mix. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991