Email validation using regular expression in PHP

Question

I am pretty much new with regular expression. I am developing a project in PHP and i need to validate email address. After searching in this site and google i found the fol

Answer 1

You should use the function filter_vars() to validate your input instead of your own regexp.

Example:

filter_var('bob@example.com', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)

More info in the documentation : http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php