Re: Regex æøå email validation?

On 9/24/07, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > Im helping a friend with hes internet site, and I have found this > > regex email validation regex on the internet: > > > > var filter=/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a- > > z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i; > > if(!filter.test(email)) { > > return false; > > } > > > > It works fine, but my friend strangely enough has users with special > > danish letters (æøåÆØÅ) in their email address, and that it does not > > accept. Regex is black magic to me, I have tried to modify it in > > different ways, but with no luck. > > > > I know its not PHP specific (its JavaScript), but maybe one of you > > can help me anyways? have you looked into http://php.net/filter functions? not sure if those are locale-friendly or not. if(filter_var($foo, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {} has worked for me. i don't use any extended characters though. but changing your locale in PHP might allow it to work.