According to your function .@ is a valid email address. The least you could have done was to check that @ and . were in the correct order with at least 1 character between, before and after them.

There's a PHP snippet up that verifies the existence of an MX record pointing to the domain of an email address . . . that's much more likely to help you. (Especially since email-address regexes can get untenably long for my tastes!)

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I reccomend looking boost::regex part of boost.

This doesn't verify an e-mail address at all.

Bobby R Ward
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bobbyrward@gmail.com

This would validate the fact that there is an at sign and a period with arbitrary characters around them. It doesn't check for invalid characters and such.

Yea, boost::regex is the way to go.

- Billism