VamVan wrote: > Hello Team of Nerds, > > I need help in writing a regular expression for this: > > invalid character set is: > > INVALID_STRING={"/","*","+","(",")","'\'","<",">",",",":",";","~","..",".@","@."}; > > I want to a pregmatch for these characters on my whole email address and if > match is found I need to return false. > > Thank you > > If your trying to filter E-Mail addresses, then filter_var is what you should use: http://php.net/filter_var Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php