help with preg_match

[farley99]

Hi,

How do i match and email, but not my own email?
change
preg_match('/\b[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z\.\-]+\b/',$customers,$email);
to
preg_match('/\b[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z\.\-]+\b[&not farley99@hotmail.com]/',$customers,$email);

what is the correct syntax for the above?

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't understand. Are you trying to determine whether an input is a well-formed SMTP email address?

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[skiflyer]

I also don't understand exactly what you want... but I think you might want to ask why you're doing it in one regular expression when your email address isn't really best described by a regular expression at all.

Perhaps, seeing if it's your email address, then if not, see if it's a well formed email address would be a simpler approach?

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

I would first check that it is exactly your email address. If that check failed, I would then check to see whether the string contained any well-formed email address. In short, don't try to do it all in one go -- you'll just make yourself crazy.

I've also found it easier to use a "divide and conquer" approach to checking SMTP email addresses for well-formedness. I have a function in faq434-2408 which uses this methodology. The function I provide there can, if you wish, also check to see whether the email address appears in a valid top-level domain.


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