Question

I have a string as

$email_string='Aslam Doctor <[e-mail]>';

From which I want to extract Name & Email using PHP? so that I can get

$email='[e-mail]';
$name='Aslam Doctor'

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As much as people will probably recommend regular expression I’d say use explode().
Explode splits the string up in several substrings using any delimiter.
In this case I use ‘ <‘ as a delimiter to immediately strip the whitespace between the name and e-mail.

$split = explode(' <', $email_string);
$name = $split[0];
$email = rtrim($split[1], '>');

rtrim() will trim the ‘>’ character from the end of the string.