Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 05/03/05 21:18

* Jm <frawst1@gmail.com>:
> Does anyone have a nice email address syntax checking script they'd
> like to share? Regular expression-based anyone? TIA.

I use the following regex:

preg_match('/[^@\s]+@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}$/i', $email)

I believe I got it out of the PHP Cookbook, by David Sklar, but I can't
remember for certain. It's not 100% accurate, but I rarely have
complaints from users whose emails don't validate.

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