>Not trying to gang up, but your email worked fine for me as well. I did notice that a space on either end of the email caused it to fail. alltrim() maybe?
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"^([0-9a-zA-Z]+[-._+&])*[0-9a-zA-Z]+@([-0-9a-zA-Z]+[.])+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$"

according to Craig Boyd's blog http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2006/01/04/ARegularExpressionsLibraryForVisualFoxPro.aspx

It works now. I added alltrim just in case.