preg_match help

[afrojojo]

I am trying to search an email header for the email address after it was piped to the script.

 

This is what the header and code look like:

 

Header

From me@mysite.com Sun Feb 14 17:45:41 2010

 

Code

if (preg_match("/^From (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
$from = $matches[1];
}

 

Outputs "me@mysite.com Sun Feb 14 17:45:41 2010"

 

I want it to output just "me@mysite.com"

 

Any Ideas?

[teamatomic]

/^From (\S+)/ this will put the address at [1]

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[cags]

Bare in mind that will only work if a name hasn't been included in the From header. If that's not a problem then your good to go, if it is let us know. I'm not going to sit here and work something out if it's unneeded.

[afrojojo]

What if the header looks like this and is in an $email variable:

 

Header

From me@mysite.com Mon Feb 15 11:34:42 2010 Received: from xx-xx-xx-xx.dhcp.eucl-nbb.wi.charter.com ([xx-xx-xx-xx] helo=[xx-xx-xx-xx]) by xx.xx.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nh5mL-00035o-Ti for rsv

 

Code

if (preg_match("/^From (\S+)/", $email[$i], $matches)) {
$from = $matches[1];
}

 

It doesn't output anything. I want it to output "me@mysite.com".

[cags]

Do you have an $email array and is $i a valid key in it? If so, just echo $from.

[afrojojo]

Do you have an $email array and is $i a valid key in it? If so, just echo $from.

No, email contains that header string. I'm not sure where $i comes from. echoing $from doesn't show anything. I don't fully understand preg_match, sorry.

[cags]

If your not sure where it's from, why is it there? Of course it doesn't output anything, hence the fact I had the big fat if at the start of my post. If $email contains the header then it should be...

 

if (preg_match("/^From (\S+)/", $email, $matches)) {
   $from = $matches[1];
}

[afrojojo]

Yeah, im an idiot. Thanks