Regular Expression Help

[Hellbringer2572]

I need some help with regular expression. i am working on a mod to go though posts that are on my site to see if people are posting email address is the post as advertising so i want to search a string for a email address.

 

i have this..

 

$pattern = '/@.*/';

preg_match_all($pattern, $post, $matches);

 

seeing that the @ symbol breaks it up and makes it think it is 3 different words how do i write the regular expression to grab the portion before the @ and the portion behind the @ and stop at the end of the .com

 

(when i ran that code i get this.....

 

[0] => @HOTMAIL.COM">testemail@HOTMAIL.COM or testemail2@HOTMAIL.COM

 

which is two emails posted next to each other i just want to get the testemail@hotmail.com)

 

Thanks

Mike

[Adam]

Your expression isn't specific enough. Quite often people put something like "@someuser ..." to address someone specifically, but your expression would match this too. You'll easily be able to find a decent regexp to match email addresses on the internet, and you can just modify that to also 'backreference'  the parts of the string you need.

 

http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html