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willium
willium

Reputation: 2128

Regex Get Email handle from Email Address

I have an email address that could either be $email = "[email protected]"; or $email="Johnny <[email protected]>" I want to get $handle = "x"; for either version of the $email. How can this be done in PHP (assuming regex). I'm not so good at regex.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2661

Answers (4)

wom
wom

Reputation: 180

Here is a complete PHP solution based on marcog's answer

function extract_email($email_string) {
    preg_match("/<?([^<]+?)@([^>]+?)>?$/", $email_string, $matches);
    return $matches[1] . "@" . $matches[2];
}

echo extract_email("[email protected]"); // outputs [email protected]
echo extract_email("Ice Cream Bob <[email protected]>"); // outputs [email protected]

Upvotes: 3

moinudin
moinudin

Reputation: 138337

Use the regex <?([^<]+?)@ then get the result from $matches[1].

Here's what it does:

  • <? matches an optional <.
  • [^<]+? does a non-greedy match of one or more characters that are not ^ or <.
  • @ matches the @ in the email address.

A non-greedy match makes the resulting match the shortest necessary for the regex to match. This prevents running past the @.

Rubular: http://www.rubular.com/r/bntNa8YVZt

Upvotes: 3

Robert Ross
Robert Ross

Reputation: 1925

$email = '[email protected]';
preg_match('/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\._\+]+@[a-z0-9A-Z\-\._]+\.[a-zA-Z]+)/', $email, $regex);
$handle = array_shift(explode('@', $regex[1]));

Try that (Not tested)

Upvotes: 0

Cray
Cray

Reputation: 2454

Just search the string using this basic email-finding regex: \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}\b It will match any email in any text, and in your first string it will match the whole string, and in the second, only the part of the string that is e-mail.

To quickly learn regexp this is the best place: http://www.regular-expressions.info

Upvotes: 0

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