Matching a Valid E-mail Address : Regular Expressions « String « PHP

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Matching a Valid E-mail Address


 

<?php 

$regex = "/^[\w\d!#$%&'*+-\/=?^'{|}~]+(\.[\w\d!#$%&'*+-\/=?^'{|}~]+)*@([a-z\d][-a-z\d]*[a-z\d]\.)+[a-z][-a-z\d]*[a-z]$/"; 



$values = array( 

"[email protected]",

"user@example"

); 



foreach ($values as $value) { 

    if (preg_match($regex, $value)) { 

        printf("Found valid address: %s\n", $value); 

    } else { 

        printf("INVALID address: %s\n", $value); 

    } 

} 



?>

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