Posted by Robert Cummings on 11/11/24 11:31

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 19:05, GamblerZG wrote:
> I'm using this, but I'm not sure whether it's bug-free:
> preg_match('/^([.0-9a-z_+-]+)@([0-9a-z-]+\.)+[0-9a-z]{2,6}$/i', $email);
>
> Note: IIRC, PEAR function will invalidate all adresses in museum TLD.

Email validation is like MD5 checksum... who the hells cares if it
doesn't work 0.0001% of the time? Unless you're being paid large sums of
money to get it perfect, or a life depends on it's accuracy... go with
the simplified solution.

Cheers,
Rob.
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