Posted by Rik on 10/10/17 11:51

Jon Thompson wrote:
> I use this to validate the email address entered into a form. Might be
> useful:
>
> function ValidateEmailAddress($EmailAddress){
> $EmailAddress = strtolower(trim($EmailAddress));
> if
> (!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z
> {2,4})$", $EmailAddress)){ return FALSE;
> } else {
> return $EmailAddress;
> }
> }

Which will exclude a lot of valid emailadresses. We recently had a
discussion on this on comp.lang.javascript. Check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Limitations

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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