Re: Validation Email in PHP programs

Hi, this is the regular expression from a PHP book. ereg("^[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+([a-zA-z]{2,3})$, $formfield"); looks horrible but works. "Sharat Hegde" <shah@sonata-software.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:30402B4CB8C7D311A3C600C04F1513BC3BDAE4@bg2ipmail... > Hello, > > I am trying to validate the email address in my PHP program using the ereg > function. I have different combinations of regular expressions to get the > chunks of the email substring before and after the @ symbol and the dot (.) > character. However, this does not seem to work. > > Can anyone suggest a method using ereg or otherwise to validate the email > address in a PHP program? > > Regards, > Sharat Hegde > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >