[pmwiki-devel] Email pattern...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:31:02AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> I put together this pattern to match for emails, but it doesn't seem
> to catch something like email at example, ie without a dot in the second
> half.
> 
> ="/^.+ at .+\..+$/
> 
> Can someone help me spot what I'm missing? Or suggest a better pattern?

If you're willing to accept names without dots in the second half,
then don't require it:

    /^.+ at .+$/

This basically says to match any string containing an @ sign somewhere
in the middle of the string and no newlines.

Pm