note 38136 added to function.ereg

In addition to cwilliams at aerospace dot state dot al dot us: The following section of the code does give false negatives for users who have a dot before the @, as in (firstname dot lastname at ...): //Do the basic Reg Exp Matching for simple validation if (eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$]", $Email)) { return FALSE; } It can be corrected simply with: //Do the basic Reg Exp Matching for simple validation if (eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$]", $Email)) { return FALSE; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+38136 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+38136&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+38136&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php