note 37209 added to function.eregi

I'm posting this as a - hopefully - helpful example to those who are learning regular expressions. Apologies to the documentation team and moderators for posting yet another email address validation example, but it's hard to argue against it as most everyone will see regular expressions as being a solution to this problem. <?php // Example results: $email[] = 'foo@example.com'; // matched $email[] = 'foo.bar@example.co.uk'; // matched $email[] = 'foo_bar@example.com'; // matched $email[] = '_foo_bar@example.com'; // matched $email[] = 'foo@example.example'; // matched $email[] = '_-._@-.--'; // matched $email[] = '@.'; // not matched $email[] = '@.com'; // not matched $email[] = ' @ .com'; // not matched $email[] = '.bar@example.com'; // not matched $email[] = 'foo.@example.com'; // not matched $email[] = 'foo@example.x.y'; // not matched $regex = '^'. '[_a-z0-9-]+'. /* One or more underscore, alphanumeric, or hyphen charactures. */ '(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*'. /* Followed by zero or more sets consisting of a period and one or more underscore, alphanumeric, or hyphen charactures. */ '@'. /* Followed by an "at" characture. */ '[a-z0-9-]+'. /* Followed by one or more alphanumeric or hyphen charactures. */ '(\.[a-z0-9-]{2,})+'. /* Followed by one or more sets consisting of a period and two or more alphanumeric or hyphen charactures. */ '$'; foreach ($email as $example) { if (eregi($regex, $example)) { echo $example . ' matched<br>'; } else { echo $example . ' not matched<br>'; } } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37209 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37209&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37209&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php