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Des
I am new to php and strugling in this area. The tutorial isn't
helping much I have writen a test case for checking for a valid email.
http://www.des-otoole.co.uk/development/testmail.php

what I want is to check for the "@" in the email. iwant to check
for some charecters before this with or without a full stop. Also
the tutorial calls up for this ([[:alnum:]])

I know this is not what I want before the @ symbol because I want
some characters befor the @ which may include a dot. But why
so many brackets around alnum.

Help please

Desmond.

Aug 18 '05 #1
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Des wrote:
Also the tutorial calls up for this ([[:alnum:]])
What tutorial?
I know this is not what I want before the @ symbol because I want
some characters befor the @ which may include a dot. But why
so many brackets around alnum.


It's a 'character class' inside a 'bracket expression'. You
can add other characters or classes inside that bracket
expression.

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Jock
Aug 18 '05 #2

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