note 25438 added to function.eregi

From: Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:21:31 +0000
Subject: note 25438 added to function.eregi
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The apostrophe is an allowable character in the username of an email address. The regex I use for this is: ^[a-z\'0-9]+([._-][a-z\'0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([._-][a-z0-9]+))+$ Escaping the apostrophe unfortunately allows users to put a backslash in their username and the regex will not complain. Better I feel to allow some errors through than to deny legitimate addresses. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+25438 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+25438 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+25438

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