Seeing if a string contains an email address

[JamieP]

Hi, I want to see if a string contains an email address, I know how to see if it JUST contains an email address, but I don't want that, it's for a private messaging system, and we do not allow email addresses to be sent, so I need a way to check to see if the variable containing the text contains an email address.

[redbullmarky]

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Hi, I want to see if a string contains an email address, I know how to see if it JUST contains an email address, but I don't want that, it's for a private messaging system, and we do not allow email addresses to be sent, so I need a way to check to see if the variable containing the text contains an email address.
[/quote]

ok i'm sure there's a shorter pattern than this, but try:

[code]
$email = "this is a string with an email: hello@example.com in it";

$result = preg_match("/[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\.\_]*[@][A-Za-z0-9\.]*[.]([A-Za-z]{2,3})[.]?([A-Za-z]{2})?/", $email);

if ($result)
   echo 'email found in string';
else
   echo 'no emails';
[/code]

[JamieP]

Thanks redbullmarky, that worked =D