PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 15:54:57 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Tiffany Brown's Blog: A better RegEx pattern for matching e-mail addresses]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6880 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6880 Though not specifically related to PHP, I wanted to share a helpful tip that Tiffany Brown has posted to her blog today - a nice, compact regular expression to handle the matching of email addresses.

A few weeks ago, I posted a regular expression pattern < href="http://tiffanybbrown.com/2006/11/09/a-pattern-for-matching-e-mail-addresses/">for matching e-mail addresses. Below is a more refined version:
[php] ^[-+.w]{1,64}@[-.w]{1,64}.[-.w]{2,6}$ [/php]

Not only does it match the traditional email address formats, but it also will match addresses with periods in the name, British domains, and new TLDs like '.travel' or '.museum'.

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