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Scott Rowley
Scott Rowley

Reputation: 484

PHP: Strip email address only from possible <>'s

I need a little assistance getting email addresses only from within their POSSIBLY INCLUDED <> brackets.

For example I have the following 3 strings and I need each one to return only the email address:

[email protected]

"Darth Vader" <[email protected]>

"Darth Vader" <[email protected]> "Possible additional text" (Shouldn't be here but I need to make sure the regex gets rid of it anyway just in case.)

On every single one of those I would want $email to equal [email protected]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 300

Answers (1)

Jimmy Sawczuk
Jimmy Sawczuk

Reputation: 13614

How about just matching for valid e-mail addresses? The regex we use to check validity is:

/(([a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~][a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~.]*[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~])|[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-?^_`{|}~]|("[^"]+"))\@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+(com|net|edu|org|gov|mil|int|biz|pro|info|arpa|aero|coop|name|museum|co|co\.uk)/img

Or here's one that's completely TLD-agnostic:

/(([a-z0-9&*\+\-\=\?^_`{|\}~][a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~.]*[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-=?^_`{|}~])|[a-z0-9!#$%&*+-?^_`{|}~]|("[^"]+"))\@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+([a-z]{2,})/img

One of those should work for what you're looking for and should cover most cases.

Upvotes: 4

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