note 101609 deleted from function.preg-match by danbrown

From: Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:47:05 +0000
Subject: note 101609 deleted from function.preg-match by danbrown
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Note Submitter: Paperweight ---- That's not a real world email address sanitizer, THIS is a real world email address sanitizer. Someone took a week to figure it out a few years back ;) <?php function san_email($email){ $email = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-_\+\.@]/i', null, $email); if(preg_match("/^([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9_-]*\.?[a-z0-9])*)(\+[a-z0-9]+)? @([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])*\.)*([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]+)*) \.[a-z]{2,6}$/i", $email)){ return $email; } }

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