PHP validate email

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Added by tamos on May-22-2007, 5:14 pm

This function uses regex to determine if a given string is a valid email or not. Returns TRUE or FALSE

function valid_email($str)
{
return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}

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