Find string between two strings - pattern help

[schilly]

I'm working on bounce processing and I need some trying to get the bounce error message.

 

My pattern matching is terrible so I need some help with what should be a simple pattern.

 

Here is an example bounce message body:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yyyyy.xxxx.com.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.

This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

 

<email_address>:

Connected to ip_address but sender was rejected.

Remote host said: 550 SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

 

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

...

etc

...

 

I basically need everything in between "<email_address>:" and "--- Below this line is a copy of the message."

 

I tried:

eregi("^<email_address>*.)--- Below this line is a copy of the message.$",$body,$matches);

 

But I was keep getting this error: Warning: eregi() [function.eregi]: REG_BADRPT

 

I assuming because my pattern is bad.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

 

[schilly]

also, would this way be faster than doing it via strpos?

[newbtophp]

Eregi is deprecated, use preg_match and add delimiters to the start and end of your expression. Furthermore the problem is your adding ^ and $, which woul'dnt work as its not the start and end of the string your trying to match (in this case $body)

 

Also escape the dot and dashes as they are considered special characters in regex.

 

Try the following:

 

preg_match("~<email_address>.*)\-\-\- Below this line is a copy of the message\.~Us",$body,$matches);

[schilly]

awesome. thanks.