I wrote a similar script of my own... Works fine for me
function email_valid($email) {
$pattern="^[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+(\.[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)*@[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+(\.[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+
)+$";
return ereg($pattern, $email);
}
(returns false if email is not valid, true if it is)
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"Martin Skjöldebrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I would like to know if anyone has or know any PHP code to verify if a
> > form entered e-mail address is valid?
> >
> > I would like that things like 4$%^%$@@.com.br could not be sent. I only
> > has to verify the syntax of it, the existance I believe should be harder
> > to verify but if it is possible I would be glad if anyone could point me
> > the way.
>
> This is taken from PHP Developers Cookbook. Don't ask me exactly what it
> does, because I don't know. I think I can grasp the basics of it though.
> It isn't fool proof tho.
>
>
> if (!eregi ("^([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@(([a-z0-9_]|\\-)+\\.)+[a-z]{2,4}$",
> $users)) die ("Invalid email");
>
> M.
>
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