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Posted by AnrDaemon on 12/19/07 22:14
Greetings, Rik Wasmus.
In reply to Your message dated Friday, December 14, 2007, 19:26:27,
>> I have written a function using ereg().
>>
>> function ValidateOpinion()
>> {
>> $reEmail = '^[A-Za-z0-9-.]{1,40}@[A-Za-z0-9-.]{1,70}$';
> Perhaps:
> $reEmail = '^[A-Za-z0-9.-]{1,40}@[A-Za-z0-9.-]{1,70}$';
> .. allthough this would tell you lot's of valid emailaddresses are
> invalid...
> The ereg* functions should not be used anymore, use the preg_* functions
> if you can. And it's a bogus email-validator anyway. Check Friedl's
> example of a real regex emailaddress validator, and then quickly forget
> trying to validate the whole thing (you might want to test for an MX
> record of the domain though).
Speaking on e-mail validation (and hostname validation as more common problem)
I've found an interesting trick to define a hostname as Perl RE.
Excluding the part with protocol and port definition and access
credentials, it looks like:
^[0-9a-z]+(?:[\.\-][0-9a-z]+)*$
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Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
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