Posted by Mazin07 on 10/28/69 11:27

Instead, use preg_match to use Perl-style regular expressions.
It can check to see if it found a pattern.
For emails, use something like:

if( preg_match("/\w+@\w+\.\w+",$variable) )
{
do_whatever...;
}

which will check for the format abc@abc.abc

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