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Reputation: 247

Regex replace, email address from inside email body

I have (many) emails which contain addresses like < [email protected] > inside the body.

I wish to remove the < and > from the email body, but only where there is and @ inside (there are HTML tags in the body too, which must stay).

I can match the address with this regex:

^<.[^@]+.@.[^@]+.>$

, But how do I replace this with just the address and no < or > ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 820

Answers (3)

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 10390

I have (many) emails which contain addresses like < [email protected] > inside the body.

I wish to remove the < and > from the email body, but only where there is and @ inside (there are HTML tags in the body too, which must stay).

Simple. The concept is known as slicing.

$email = '<[email protected]>';


if( strpos( $email, '@' ) ) {

    $new_email = substr( $email, 1, strlen($email)-2 );
    echo $new_email;
}

Outputs: [email protected]

Upvotes: 1

David Faber
David Faber

Reputation: 12485

To search the address you'll want to use something like this:

(?:<)([^>]*@[^>]*)(?:>)

Please see Regex 101 here. I'm using non-capturing groups for the angle brackets so only what is between them will actually be captured (and I'm not using a particularly good regex for emails, but that should be easy enough to adjust).

You should be able to use the above with preg_replace_all() and the $1 backreference.

Upvotes: 1

chris85
chris85

Reputation: 23882

This should do it...

<?php
$string = '< [email protected] >';
echo preg_replace('~<\s*(.*?@.*?)\s*>~', '$1', $string);
?>

Search for 'greater than', optional leading whitespace, every character until the first @, then every character until the first 'less than', with optional trailing whitespace.

Upvotes: 4

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