finding an email in a text

[AviNahum]

hey,

im trying to recognize an email address in a text paragraph, for example:

 

1111111 <br/> 123emailaddress123@gmail.com <br/> 22222

 

and replace it to:

 

1111111 <br/> <a href="mailto:123emailaddress123@gmail.com">123emailaddress123@gmail.com</a> <br/> 22222

 

it's my first time dealing with regex and so far i reached this:

 

$text = "1111111 <br/> 123emailaddress123@gmail.com <br/> 22222";
$post_eregi = '/(.)([^0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[@][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[.][a-zA-Z]{2,4})(.)/';

echo preg_replace($post_eregi, "<a href='mailto:$2'>$2</a>", $text);

 

unfortunately it doesnt work

 

but if i remove the breakline  tag before the email address it's works grate! any suggestions or ideas what wrong?

 

thanks in advance!

[AyKay47]

hello, you can use something like this:

 

$pattern = "~\b([A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})\b~";
$str = "1111111 <br/> 123emailaddress123@gmail.com <br/> 22222";
$replacement = '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement,$str);

 

results:

 

1111111 <br/> <a href='mailto:123emailaddress123@gmail.com'>123emailaddress123@gmail.com</a> <br/> 22222

 

[AviNahum]

thanks for your replay...

it's not working at all :|

[AyKay47]

append an i modifier to the end of the pattern to make it case insensitive, I was hoping you would take some initiative and see that.

 

$pattern = "~\b([A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})\b~i";
$str = "1111111 <br/> 123emailaddress123@gmail.com <br/> 22222";
$replacement = '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement,$str);

[AviNahum]

as i said, it's my first time dealing with regex...

it's works great! thank alot!

[AyKay47]

no problem, please mark this thread as solved (bottom left corner button).