note 95964 deleted from function.ereg by danbrown

Note Submitter: Tomasz W. ---- Here's an extended pattern for email veritication: <?php if (!eregi("^([a-z]{1})([a-z0-9]*)([\.|_|-]?)([a-z0-9]*)([@]{1}) ([a-z0-9]*)([\.|_|-]?)([a-z0-9]*)([\.]{1})([a-z]{2,5})$",$email)) print "Invalid email!"; else print "all is ok!<br />$email"; ?> It's true for: aa@aa.aa aa.aa@aa.aa aa_aa@aa.aa aa-aa@aa.aa aa@aa.aa.aa aa@aa-aa.aa aa@aa_aa.aa ...... etc. Anything else will return error message. Also here's something to keep in mind. Don't use dash between special characters, even if it's separated with '|'. Like in the example below: ([\.|-|_]?) - incorrect ([\.|_|-]?) - correct It seems ereg tries to interpret dash and values on its sides as range regardles of '|' being used. Either type dash to remove its special function or put it at the end.