Verify E-mail address with preg_match

[Anon]

I have this code that I used to use to validate E-mail addresses in Perl, but when I used it in a php perl-compatible regular expression match to validate E-mail addresses it didn't work. Could you tell me what's wrong with it?

if (!preg_match("/^{[\w.-]+@([\w.-].)+\w+$/",} $email))
{
print "Inavlid E-mail!";
}

Thanks in advance for your help =)

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"it didn't work" means.... what?

[Anon]

The regular expression match doesn't work, but it worked fine in Perl.

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I think the problem is here:

([\w.-].)+

you match on a set or \w or . or -, followed by a dot.

shouldn't that be

([\w-]+.)+

BTW, there are much more complex (thus more accurate) regexps available for validating email addresses, saerch the forum!