Question

Hi Im attempting to search a string to see whether it contains a email address – and then return it.

A typical email vaildator expression is:

eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email);

However how would I search if that is in a string, for example return the email address in the string:

“Hi my name is Joe, I can be contacted at [e-mail]. I am also on Twitter.”

I am a bit stumped, I know I can search if it exists at all with \b around it but how do I return what is found.

Thanks.

Answer 1

add $regs as the last argument:

eregi("...", $email, $regs);