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sdaniels

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I have found some code that validates that a text field has something@something.something to be sure that the user entered an email address in the right format. Only isue is that I do not understand it at all. could someone break it down for me? I tried to tweak the code to validate an IP address but its just not happening for me.


this is the code i have on my site, and it works great, but i dont understand what is going on here.


[code]
$eaddress = $_REQUEST['eaddress'];
if (!eregi ('^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_\.\-]*@[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$',stripslashes(trim($eaddress)))) {
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It uses Regular Expressions, which is something I am not good at.
Try to google some Regex tutorials...

This is a Regex you can use to validate IP's:
[code]^(([3-9]\d?|[01]\d{0,2}|2\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}([3-9]\d?|[01]\d{0,2}|2\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])$[/code]
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