Validating email via regular expression

You have an online form.

You want to validate every field,  especially email input fields.

You do not want just check if its has a value of not, but also if its in the right format (e.g. email@email.com).

If you answered yes to all of these then the function below if perfect for you.

Check it out…

function validate_email($email){
     if(!eregi("^([[:alnum:]]|_|\.|-)+@([[:alnum:]]|\.|-)+(\.)([a-z]{2,4})$", $email)){
	  return $error=1;
     }
}

Fell free to abuse…

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