Email remove

[jaymc]

I have a script that uses regex to check a string for an email, if it finds it removes

 

However, It obviously cant find emails that are typed like this

 

Hello this is my email j o h n @ h o t m a i l . c o m  please add it

 

There are also other tricks but what is the best way to combat this?

[jxrd]

(\s)?

 

Includes white space.

[jaymc]

Hmm

 

Can you give me an example to try?

[Maq]

Can you show us your current regex?

[jaymc]

	function extract_email($string) {

	$pattern = '/([a-z0-9])(([-a-z0-9._])*([a-z0-9-_]))*\@([a-z0-9])' .
	'(([a-z0-9-])*([a-z0-9]))+' . '(\.([a-z0-9])([-a-z0-9_-])?([a-z0-9\.])+)/i';


	preg_match ($pattern, $string, $matches);
	return $matches['0'];
}

 

What I do is have it return the match and then use str_replace to replace the email address with "..."

[jxrd]

Could try something like

$pattern = '/([a-z0-9](\s)?)(([-a-z0-9._](\s)?)*([a-z0-9-_](\s)?))*\@([a-z0-9](\s)?)' .
      '(([a-z0-9-](\s)?)*([a-z0-9](\s)?))+' . '(\.([a-z0-9])([-a-z0-9_-](\s)?)?([a-z0-9\.](\s)?)+)/i';

 

Something like that anyway. Basically, just cram loads of (\s)? in there...

[jaymc]

That didnt work on this criteria

 

$string = "hello john@hotmail. com you ok";

echo extract_email($string)";