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leandemon on 03/06/08

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Validate Email

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Completely replaced original regular expression with one that works much better.

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function validate_email($email)
{
   return preg_match("/^[-_a-z0-9\\'+*\$^&%=~!?{}]++(?:\\.[-_a-z0-9\\'+*\$^&%=~!?{}]+)*+@(?:(?![-.])[-a-z0-9.]+(?<![-.])\\.[a-z]{2,6}|\\d{1,3}(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){3})(?::\\d++)?\$/iD",$email);
}

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Posted By: koncept on April 14, 2008: .museum is a valid domain. Your regular expression should account for it. e.g. {2,6}
Posted By: leandemon on May 2, 2009: test
Posted By: leandemon on May 2, 2009: Function now supports the .museum domain (and other domains that are 6 letters long)

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