||-Regular Expressions -- ASP vs. PHP

[sfullman]

I only had a smattering of training in regular expression when I was programming asp but I am wondering if there are any major differences in the characters in php.

My biggest concern is getting this syntax -- which does a killer job in picking only valid email strings -- into a php equivalent. Here it is:

"^{[\w-.]{1,}@([\da-zA-Z-]{1,}.){1,}[\da-zA-Z-]{2,3}$"}

note that ^ represents the beginning of string.
$ represents the end of the string, so if you took those out it would pick up any email in mid string, but this is the form I usually use.

Would this work in PHP????

Thank you,
Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

[Anon]

Largely the same; precise details are depending: are you using POSIX-compliant ereg functions or Perl-compatible preg functions?

^{[-\w.]+@([-\da-zA-Z]+.)+[-\da-zA-Z]{2,3}$}

would work in Perl-compatible functions (which are generally superior anyway).

See the documentation for more details.