[SOLVED] Extract e-mail address from string

[simonp]

Hi,

 

I have a string:

 

\"joe bloggs\" <[email protected]>

 

How can I extract the e-mail address (inside the < >) into another string?

 

Thanks

 

Simon

[Bricktop]

Hi simonp,

 

Something like the below should do the trick:

 

$string = "\"joe bloggs\" <[email protected]>";

ereg('.* (.*@[^ ]* )',$string,$m);

echo $m[1] . "\n"

[simonp]

Hi,

 

Will that work no matter how many dots in the e-mail address?

 

ie [email protected] or [email protected]

 

 

[Bricktop]

Hi simonp,

 

It should do, or you could try:

 

$string = "\"joe bloggs\" <[email protected]>";

ereg("^[-A-Za-z0-9_]+[-A-Za-z0-9_.]*[@]{1}[-A-Za-z0-9_]+[-A-Za-z0-9_.]*[.]{1}[A-Za-z]{2,5}$", $string, $m);

echo $m[1];

[simonp]

Thanks for your help Bricktop - unfortunately, it doesn't work

 

Would it not be easier/safer to remove everything before the < and after the >?

 

Is that possible?

 

Cheers

[Bricktop]

Good point, how about:

 

$string = "\"joe bloggs\" <[email protected]>";
$result = split('[<>]', $string);
echo $result[1];

 

Hope this helps.

[simonp]

Bricktop - you're a genius! Great little bit of code - thanks!