Re: PHP regex to match email addresses

Used this in LPEX find and got it work

[\w.-]{1,}\+*[\w.-]*@[\w-.]{1,}\.[\w.]{2,5}

Thanks, Matt
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:26 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] PHP regex to match email addresses

Folks:

I need to find a regular expression that matches email addresses.

I've got one that mostly works ... but not entirely.

'/[\w\.-]+@[\w-\.]+\.[\w\.]{2,5}/'

The problem is, it doesn't understand when there is a plus sign in the
email address (like david+list@xxxxxxxxxxxx).

If I change the regex to be '/[\w\.-\+]+@[\w-\.]+\.[\w\.]{2,5}/', it
doesn't match anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

david