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chirag satapara
chirag satapara

Reputation: 1937

regex to get name from the string in php

I have no idea how to make a regex , that's why i am asking this question.I have one string like chirag patel <[email protected]>

I have a regex to get email id from the string.

 preg_match("/\<(.*)\>/", $data['From'], $matches);
 $email = $matches[1];

How to get name from above string using regex?

my expected output is: chirag patel.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 191

Answers (5)

bluehipy
bluehipy

Reputation: 2294

I know it has been answered but because it's in PHP, which supports named patterns, and because might look cool:

/(?<name>.*?) \<(?<email>.*?)\>/g

name and email will be keys in the $matches array.

Upvotes: 2

marvel308
marvel308

Reputation: 10458

You can use the regex

.*(?=\<(.*)\>)

check the demo here. here is the php code for the following 

$re = '/.*(?=\<(.*)\>)/';
$str = 'chirag patel <[email protected]>';

preg_match($re, $str, $matches);

var_dump($matches[0]);

Upvotes: 3

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785266

You may use this regex to capture name and email address in 2 separate groups:

(\pL+[\pL\h.-]*?)\h*<([^>]+)>

RegEx Demo

RegEx Breakup:

  • (\pL+[\pL\h.-]*?) # group #1 that match 1+ name consisting Unicode letters, dots, hyphens, spaces
  • \h*: Match 0 or more whitespaces
  • <([^>]+)>: group #2 to capture email address between < and > characters

Code:

preg_match('~(\pL+(?:[\pL\h-]*\pL)?)\h*<([^>]+)>~u', $str, $matches);

// Print the entire match result
print_r($matches);

Upvotes: 2

Juan
Juan

Reputation: 5589

You add a capturing group for the name.

preg_match("/(.*)\<(.*)\>/", $data['From'], $matches);
$name = $matches[1];
$email = $matches[2];

Upvotes: 2

B. Desai
B. Desai

Reputation: 16436

Use this in php 

$data['From'] = "chirag patel <[email protected]>";
preg_match("/.*(?=\<(.*)\>)/", $data['From'], $matches);
print_r($matches); // 0 : name, 1 : email

Upvotes: 2

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