Strings Php

    $s = 'm@t.ca';
    if (ereg ('([[:alpha:]]+)@([[:alpha:]]+)\.([[:alpha:]]{2,4})', $s, $matches))
    {
      echo "Regular expression successful. Dumping matches\n";
      var_dump ($matches);
    }
    else
    {
      echo "Regular expression unsuccessful.\n";
    }
?>