preg match not working for some reason

Perl Regular Expression email validation

[ftaylor]

Hello folks,

I have been trying to work out what is wrong with my email validation preg.

Here is the regex, and below is my understanding of it:

^[A-Za-z0-9]+([._-]{1}[A-Za-z0-9]+){0,}@[A-Za-z0-9]+([._-]{1}[A-Za-z0-9]+){0,}\.[A-Za-z]{2, 6}$

starting with: one or more in the ranges A-Za-z0-9

followed by 0 or more of: 1 from .-_ followed by one or more in the ranges A-Za-z0-9

followed by @

then: one or more in the ranges A-Za-z0-9

followed by 0 or more of: 1 from .-_ followed by one or more in the ranges A-Za-z0-9

followed by .

followed by between 2 and 6 characters from A-Za-z

and it doesn't work. Is my logic flawed?

function validate_email($email)
{
return preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9]+([._-]{1}[A-Za-z0-9]+){0,}@[A-Za-z0-9]+([._-]{1}[A-Za-z0-9]+){0,}\.[A-Za-z]{2, 6}$/', $email);
}

[ftaylor]

I discovered what the problem was. Rather simple really, you can't have a space between the {x, y} when you are limiting the number of elements.

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