Re: Extracting Strings

kenoli wrote:
This is probably much simpler than I'm making it, and seems like
something that is done all the time, but I can't find a combination of
regular expression and php function that does it.

I want to extract the data in the following string:

"Person Name" <email@xxxxxxx>

that is between the "" and the <> characters.

In this case I want to extract:

Person Name and email@xxxxxxx

so I can assign the results to a variable or array. I want to extract
each string separately.

If someone can help me construct the script/regular expression to do
this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

--Kenoli

Hi Kenoli,
I'm no expert at regular expressions, but I found the following workable solution.

1 <?php
2 $string = '"Name" <email@xxxxxxxxxx>';
3
4 preg_match("/<([a-z0-9.@]+)>/i", $string, $matches);

5
6 var_dump($matches);
7 ?>

String refers to the string you would like to extract.

preg_match is the function you will use, to do the regex.

/<([a-z0-9.@]+)>/i is the regelur expression to match against
The characters in the square brackets are the characters to match against, you can add more to include other valid email characters ascii 7 bit chars iirc.

$matches is the matches, in this case you want match number 1 if it exists because it is the match inside the parenthesis.

Anyone please feel free to correct me if required.

Hope this helps, Cheers
Leigh Finch
www.phpmaniac.net
.

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