note 80068 deleted from function.preg-match by tularis
| From: | tularis@php.net | Date: | Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:37:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 80068 deleted from function.preg-match by tularis | ||
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Note Submitter: ahigerd at timeips dot com
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One note on the regular expressions provided that claim to validate e-mail addresses: They're
incomplete. To quote the note submission page, just a couple paragraphs above the box where you type
in your note:
"(And if you're posting an example of validating email addresses, please don't
bother. Your example is almost certainly wrong for some small subset of cases. See this information
from O'Reilly Mastering Regular Expressions book
[http://examples.oreilly.com/regex/readme.html] for the gory details.)"
That said, the expressions as provided aren't COMPLETELY irrelevant -- they WILL validate MOST
e-mail addresses, and you won't really be blocking any significant portion of the population by
using them. Just be aware of the limitations.