Posted by chadlupkes on 02/18/07 06:11

I have this code from someone else, and I'm trying to make heads or
tails of it because IE doesn't like it. Can anyone help? Or does
anyone have a better idea?

/* parse the email to check for valid form */
function parseemail(str)
{
str = trim(str);
<?if(preg_match("/MSIE 5.0;/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) // this
is IE 5.0
{?>
if(str.search(/\w+@[\w\W]+\.[a-z]{3}/) == -1)
{
window.alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return true;
}
<?}else{ // not IE 5.0
?>
if(str.search(/^[\w\-\.]+[@][\w\-]+(?:\.[\w\-]+)+$/) == -1) // ||
str.search(/.+?\@([\w.-]+?\s)/) == -1)
{
window.alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return true;
}
<?}?>
}

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