Nuno Oliveira wrote:
>>
>> 1. Why did you remove the backslash? (the original was correct)
>>
> I have a regular expression tester plugin in firefox and it validates Ok
> with the expression he provided.
>
> If I add the second (original) backslash it won't validate emails anymore.
>
> Also, from my little knowledge of Red.Exp. the backslash will escape
> special chars.
> In this case the backslash will escape the dot to match only a dot and
> not all chars...
>
> This my way of seing it...
Either of the following will work as you want it, including testing for
the backslash:

"/[\w\/]{6,}/"
or
("/[\w\\\x2f]{6,}/"

The first is the preferred. The backslash has to be escaped; otherwise
it escapes the character that follows it.

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At 5:54 PM +0200 1/19/07, WeberSites LTD wrote:
>Top Ajax :
>I meant that at the top of WeberDev.com there is an Ajax search box that you
>can use
>to search for "email validation" and see many related code examples to
>choose from.
>
>berber

berber:

Your original post was clear enough for me to understand. Probably
something else going on.

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# EMAIL REMOVED / 2007-01-20 08:53:32 -0500:
> I picked this up in my travels.
>
> function validate_email($email)
> {
>
> // Create the syntactical validation regular expression
> $regexp =
> "^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$";

One of my email addresses is
neuhauser+pgsql-general#EMAIL REMOVED.

Also, "[" ip-address "]" is a valid right hand side of an email address,
e. g.:

root@[127.0.0.1]

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At 3:04 PM +0000 1/20/07, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
># EMAIL REMOVED / 2007-01-20 08:53:32 -0500:
>> I picked this up in my travels.
>>
>> function validate_email($email)
>> {
>>
>> // Create the syntactical validation regular expression
>> $regexp =
>> "^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$";
>
>One of my email addresses is
>neuhauser+pgsql-general#EMAIL REMOVED.
>

Thanks, I'll add that to my kill list.

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:40:36PM -0700, Don wrote:
> I'm trying to get this line to validate an email address from a form and it
> isn't working.
>
> if (ereg("^.+@.+\..+$",$submittedEmail))
>

> The book I'm referencing has this line
>
> if (ereg("^.+@.+\\..+$",$submittedEmail))
>
> Anyway.. I welcome any advice as long as it doesn't morph into a political
> debate on ADA standards and poverty in Africa. :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Don


Don:

I picked this up in my travels.

function validate_email($email)
{

// Create the syntactical validation regular expression
$regexp =
"^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$";

// Presume that the email is invalid
$valid = 0;

// Validate the syntax
if (eregi($regexp, $email))
{
list($username,$domaintld) = split("@",$email);
// Validate the domain
if (getmxrr($domaintld,$mxrecords))
$valid = 1;
} else {
$valid = 0;
}

return $valid;

}

$email = "johnny-EMAIL REMOVED";

if (validate_email($email))
echo "Email is valid!";
else
echo "Email is invalid!";

hth's

tedd


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# EMAIL REMOVED / 2007-01-20 09:22:00 -0500:
> At 3:04 PM +0000 1/20/07, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >One of my email addresses is
> >neuhauser+pgsql-general#EMAIL REMOVED.
>
> Thanks, I'll add that to my kill list.

Vietnam vet... Old habits don't go away easily huh?

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At 3:47 PM +0000 1/20/07, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
># EMAIL REMOVED / 2007-01-20 09:22:00 -0500:
>> At 3:04 PM +0000 1/20/07, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>> >One of my email addresses is
>> >neuhauser+pgsql-general#EMAIL REMOVED.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll add that to my kill list.
>
>Vietnam vet... Old habits don't go away easily huh?

I didn't think of it that way, but that's a thought. Let's hope that
you never run into a Vietnam vet who thinks that way (they do exist).
As for me, I figure that you've never had any adversity to confront,
so you just don't know any better -- however, I'm sure life
experience and maturity will help you understand. Good luck with that.

tedd
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