Extracting info between brackets

[mckeegan375]

Hi

 

Ive been trying to solve this problem for a few hours but am having no luck so would appreciate any help

 

Im looking for a function/way of extracting info from a dropdown list when a form is submitted. The form field has a name and email address i.e John (john@smith.com) and i just need the email address part to submit into a mysql database.

 

I tried using the explode() function but this didnt work.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers

Andy

[ManiacDan]

preg_match.

 

Explode works too if you combine it with trim().

 

-Dan

[mckeegan375]

Cheers Dan - worked a treat!

 

Andy

[Maq]

Cheers Dan - worked a treat!

 

Andy

 

Mind sharing so people can use this thread as a reference in case they run into the same problem?

[mckeegan375]

Sure, no problem.

 

So my form had a dropdown field called 'email' but the data in the dropdown was in the format Name (email) and i just wanted the email part for my query. So using Dan's suggestion of explode and trim, i got the following:

 

$start = $_POST['email']; 
$emailexplode = explode("(",$start);
$email = rtrim($emailexplode[1],")");

 

Hope this helps someone in the future

 

Andy