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Tales
Tales

Reputation: 1923

explode list of emails separated with different characters in php

I have a form where i can get a list of emails separated by random characters: (some will use comma, others will use semi-colon or even *). Something like this:

[email protected];[email protected],[email protected]*[email protected]

Is there a way to explode the string with a regular expression?

In most cases, the users will type the same separator but i don't want to force people with an exclusive one.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 690

Answers (4)

Mihai Iorga
Mihai Iorga

Reputation: 39704

For a complete solution you can use preg_match_all()

$emails = preg_match_all(
    "/[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,}/i",
    $emails,
    $matches
);

$matches[0] array will have all your emails.

Upvotes: 1

mmdemirbas
mmdemirbas

Reputation: 9158

See it in action:

(?<mail>[\w%+.-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6})

Upvotes: 0

swtweb
swtweb

Reputation: 46

You can use preg_split function.

Here is a quick example & output:

<?php
    $str = "[email protected];[email protected],[email protected]*[email protected]";
    $finalString=preg_split("/[*,;]/",$str);
    var_dump($finalString);
?>

OUTPUT:

array
  0 => string '[email protected]' (length=18)
  1 => string '[email protected]' (length=18)
  2 => string '[email protected]' (length=18)
  3 => string '[email protected]' (length=18)

Upvotes: 1

PeeHaa
PeeHaa

Reputation: 72672

Something like this should get you started:

<?php
$test = preg_split ('/(;|,|\*)/', '[email protected];[email protected],[email protected]*[email protected]');

var_dump($test);

Docs and demo

Upvotes: 3

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