Hi all,
I have the following String
First Last <[email protected]>
I would like to extract
"first.last"
from the email string using regex & PHP. How to go about this?
Thanks in advance!
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83answers:
6
+1
A:
Can't you just use a split function instead? I don't use PHP but seems like this would be far simpler if it's available.
No Refunds No Returns
2010-02-24 01:58:54
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A:
If that's the exact format you'll get, then matching against the regex
/<([^@<>]+)@([^@<>]+)>/
will give you e.g. first.last in capture group 1 and email.com in capture group 2.
Anon.
2010-02-24 01:59:04
Note that this chokes on email addresses containing multiple @s. I doubt this is a problem for the vast majority of users though - and in this case, a solution which works 99.9% of the time takes less than 0.1% of the effort involved in getting the last 0.1% working correctly.
Anon.
2010-02-24 02:03:33
with /slightly/ more work, you can find the last @ in the string knowing that according to the RFC, the name is the portion before that final @.
Erik
2010-02-24 02:08:42
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A:
$str ="First Last <[email protected]>";
$s = explode("@",$str);
$t = explode("<",$s[0]);
print end($t);
ghostdog74
2010-02-24 02:07:39
Ghostdog, I like this solution too, but to be fair my question asked for a regex. But nonetheless your solution works great, thanks for your response!
st4ck0v3rfl0w
2010-02-24 02:12:47
fair enough. Its your choice. I just presented a simpler alternative, for your particular string sample. end($t) is the last element of the array. check the PHP docs for more
ghostdog74
2010-02-24 02:17:52
A:
No need to use regexp; much more efficient to use some simple string functions.
$string = 'First Last <[email protected]>';
$name = trim(substr($string, 0, strpos($string, '<')));
Ben Rowe
2010-02-24 02:12:53
+2
A:
I know the answer was already accepted, but this will work on any valid email address in the format of: Name <identifier@domain>
// Yes this is a valid email address
$email = 'joey <"joe@work"@example.com>';
echo substr($email, strpos($email,"<")+1, strrpos($email, "@")-strpos($email,"<")-1);
// prints: "joe@work"
Most of the other posted solutions will fail on a number of valid email addresses.
Erik
2010-02-24 02:22:23
A:
This is a lot easier (after checking that the email IS valid):
$email = '[email protected]'; $split = explode('@',$email); $name = $split[0]; echo "$name"; // would echo "my.name"
To check validity, you could do this:
function isEmail($email) {
return (preg_match('/[\w\.\-]+@[\w\.\-]+\.\[w\.]/', $email));
}
if (isEmail($email)) { ... }
As for extracting the email out of First Last <[email protected]>,
function returnEmail($contact) {
preg_match('\b[\w\.\-]+@[\w\.\-]+\.\[w\.]\b', $contact, $matches);
return $matches[0];
}
henasraf
2010-02-24 08:57:10