Posted by Kevin Waterson on 09/16/05 18:08

This one time, at band camp, "bruce" <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:

> hi..
>
> looking for a good/working/tested php email validation regex that conforms
> to the rfc2822 standard.

This will be fun, everybody has their own which is always best. No two people
will agree what is correct method and will always come with a 'better' one.
This is generally accompanied by derision and ridicule of the others.
To this end, I will start the ball rolling with this one...

preg_match('/^\S+@[\w\d.-]{2,}\.[\w]{2,6}$/iU', $email)


Kevin
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Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

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