preg_match()

[youradds]

Hi. For some reason i am getting a parse error from the following line;

if (!preg_match("/[0-9a-z]([-_.+]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.[a-z]{2,}$/", $email) { error("The email you submitted is not in the correct format! This address will be used to contact you regarding your submission, and nothing else!" }

Can anyone see a reason why?

Thanks

Andy

 

[danielhozac]

You need to escape the dots. //Daniel

 

[AnakinPt]

In Regular Expressions a dot (.) means any char, so when we want to represent the dot we must do \.
Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[youradds]

Hi. Where abouts are you refering to as the 'dots' ?

Thanks

Andy

 

[danielhozac]

if (!preg_match("/[0-9a-z]([-_\.+]?[0-9a-z])*\@[0-9a-z]([-\.]?[0-9a-z])*\.[a-z]{2,}$/", $email) { error("The email you submitted is not in the correct format! This address will be used to contact you regarding your submission, and nothing else!" }
//Daniel

 

[youradds]

Still giving a parse error

Parse error: parse error in c:\program files\nusphere\apache\nsdocs\test\contact.php on line 147

any more ideas?

Thanks

Andy

BTW, im using the code daniel just provided above.

 

[danielhozac]

I think you might need to escape the -, like:
if (!preg_match("/[0-9a-z]([\-_\.+]?[0-9a-z])*\@[0-9a-z]([\-\.]?[0-9a-z])*\.[a-z]{2,}$/", $email) { error("The email you submitted is not in the correct format! This address will be used to contact you regarding your submission, and nothing else!" }
//Daniel

 

[Guest_imported]

an error

Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function preg_match() in e:\

http://www\apache\htdocs\vbb\upload\member.php

on line 358