EmailDetect Library - A simple solution to detect emails into strings.

[eluser]gungbao[/eluser]
as colin said, there is no difference. personally I never saw this & i find this confusing, where ^ has already anchor and negotion behavior. as colin said - "for some reason better forget this redundat way of delimiters and start using the /regex/ when using perl-regex in php (you have to slighlty differ between the preg and the posix - regex in php.

here is a nice cheatsheet to start wit preg's


http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/datastep...-sheet.pdf



more about perl and posix regex on the php.net
there are even online-tools to click&build;your regex and check the matching on-the-fly.