simple ereg fun

[Shawazi]

Why am I so bad at this?

$emailto = "hello bye";
if(ereg("[!,] .",$emailto))
{
	echo "<b>$emailto</b> is a bad format";
}
else
{
	echo "<b>$emailto</b> is a good format";
}

It keeps saying this is a good format. I need it to be bad. I am trying to make it so that if there is a space without a comma before it, it will say it is bad. This is for e-mail so
"[e-mail] [e-mail]" is bad because there is no comma right after [e-mail]

[LordShryku]

The "not" sign in ereg is ^, so (ereg("[^,] ", $emailto)

[Shawazi]

I thought ^ was beginning of line

[LordShryku]

Well...try it. Or looks it up.