On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:32:35PM +0900, Dave G wrote:
:
: > ... escaping isn't necessary.
:
: Thanks so much for all the helpful advice!
: Okay, included the + character, and removed the escaping. And I know I'm
: supposed to checking into preg_match, but I'm looking at this as an
: opportunity to learn about regular expressions, so I still have a
: question. I'm confused why hyphens wouldn't still need escaping. Hyphens
: are used to express a range of characters. If there's a hyphen there,
: won't PHP think I'm looking for a range from nothing to nothing? Or is
: it clever enough to figure out what's going on?
: (!eregi('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', $email)
The last part of your pattern needs to be changed because it allows for
a top-level domain to contain numbers and hyphens. Currently, such a
thing does not exist.
Also, the 2nd part of your pattern allows for a 2nd-level domain to
start and end with a hyphen, which is also disallowed.
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