Posted by Richard Heyes on 11/15/05 18:24
Leonard Burton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know that it is pretty darn impossible to come up with a regular
> expression for validating emails.
>
> How do you all validated emails on form submission?
>
> Is it good just to do something like "/.+@.+[.].+/" ? That (or a
> close derivative) should match that there is at least a @ and a . with
> chars before and after each. I will be sending an email to each new
> registration with a confirmation link.
>
> Does that regex make about the best sense?
Try this, (# is the regex delimiter):
#^([\w.+-]+)@(([\da-z-]+\.)+[\da-z]{2,4})$#i
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Richard Heyes
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