Problem with this is that many people use '+' in email addresses along with
other strange characters (a friend of mine has an apostrophe in her address
at General Electric).
Bottom line, trying to catch all valid email addresses using a regex is a
really ugly thing to try to do. The one shown here will probably work for
95% or more of them though.
As an aside, underscores in domain names are illegal (more correctly,
underscores in MX-related DNS records are illegal). As such, you don't
need to have underscore to the right of the @ sign in this regex.
-d
Previously, Nikhil Goyal said:
> 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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