problem using patterin for email validation

[mptolman]

I'm using a pattern with the eregi() function to validate an e-mail address, but it isn't working. Here's the code:

$pattern = "^{([0-9a-z]+)([0-9a-z.-]+)@([0-9a-z.-]+).([0-9a-z.-_]+)} ";

if (eregi($pattern, $Array["email"])) {
print "Your information has been received!<br>\n";
else {
print "Please enter a valid email address!\n";
}

Whenever I try it, it says to enter a valid email address even if I DO enter a valid email. Help? 😕

// Matt

[non_zero]

you have a trailing space in your regular expression ($pattern), so "[e-mail]" wouldn't work but "[e-mail] " would.

either way, here's a function that I use that's been flawless.

function is_email($email) {
    return eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email);
}

[mptolman]

cool, thanks