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aristoworks on 07/01/08


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PHP (RegEx) Email Address Validation

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A simple method of validating an email address using PHP and regular expressions

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  1. $string = "[email protected]"; 
  2. if (preg_match(
  3. '/^[^\W][a-zA-Z0-9_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*\@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/',
  4. $string)) { 
  5. echo "example 3 successful.";
  6. }

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Posted By: Nikush on October 7, 2010

Very accurate, thanks!

Posted By: blakov on September 10, 2013

What you think about this short form?

'/^[^\W][a-z0-9]+(.[a-z0-9]+)\@[a-z0-9]+(.[a-z0-9]+).[a-z]{2,4}$/i'

Posted By: pego on October 2, 2013

It's wrong!

TRY: vardump(pregmatch('/^[^\W][a-zA-Z0-9]+(.[a-zA-Z0-9]+)\@[a-zA-Z0-9]+(.[a-zA-Z0-9]+).[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/', "[email protected]"));

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