Dave -- ...and then Dave G said... % % > 2) Sure enough, you don't allow "+" extensions in yours. % > Neener neener :-) % % Is + a legal character in emails?
Yep. IIRC sendmail and postfix use it for their extensions like qmail
uses (by default) a - (but qmail can use whatever you want). See 1)
again :-)
%
% > 3) You might check out preg_match, which the manual says is
% > often faster than ereg().
%
% Will look into it. Thanks for the tip.
Sure thing!
%
% > 4) To include '-' in a range list, put it last in the range.
%
% So then it would look like this:
% (!eregi('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', $email)
% Is that right?
Yes, except change all
\.\-
to
.-
since escaping isn't necessary.
%
% > 1. Special characters within brackets do not need to be escaped. [.]
% > will match a period.
%
% So then I could make it:
% (!eregi('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', $email)
% Correct?
Almost there.
%
% > 3. I don't think a hyphen is even legal in an email address...
%
% If it wasn't, the user couldn't have emailed me to tell me that he
% wasn't having success in registering on my form. Or could he?
I already poked at him about that. Look at my address, for instance ;-)
%
% --
% Cheers!
% Dave G
% [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH & HAND
:-D
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