[quote author=wildteen88 link=topic=101948.msg404126#msg404126 date=1153940858] You do something like this: [code]<?php $text = "Hey my email adddy is abc123@abc.def isnt it nice"; if(preg_match("/([A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})/i", $text)) { echo "Email adddy detected, We do not accept email addresses within strings!"; } else { echo "No email addy dectected"; } ?>[/code] [/quote] Thanks.. Yeah thats a possibility i thought of that already. .. I am using a form class that validates on the server side and the client side. On the client side javascript is created from the reg expression. So i was looking for just a reg expression that would not accept any text that contained an email address. Its not that important as i could validate it on the server side only with the above code. Thanks for your input...