Get email address from mailbox line

Question

I need to extract the email address from this line of the mailbox. I was thinking about str_replace , but the display name and email address are not static, so I don't know how to do this using regular expressions.

Example: " My name <[e-mail]> " should result in " [e-mail] ".

Any ideas?

Thanks Matthy

Answer 1

at face value, the following will work:

 preg_match('~<([^>]+)>~',$string,$match); 

but I have a suspicious suspicion that you need something better than this. There are tons of “official” email regular expression patterns, and you need to be more specific about the context and rules of the match.

Answer 2

You can use imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist to parse this address:

 $addresses = imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist('My name <[e-mail]>'); 

Answer 3

If you know that the string is surrounded by < and > , you can simply split it according to this.

This assumes that you will always have only one pair of < and > surrounding the string, and this does not guarantee that the result will be an email template.

Otherwise, you can always read email regular expression patterns .

Answer 4

or find regular expressions (preg_match).

something like: [^ <] <([^>])>;

Answer 5

 $s = 'My name <[e-mail]>'; $s = substr(($s = substr($s, (strpos($s, '<')+1))), 0, strrpos($s, '>')); 

What this basically does is extract everything between the first <and last>