Question

I have following string:

“Johnny Test” <[e-mail]>,Jack <[e-mail]>,“Scott
Summers” <[e-mail]> …

The multi word names are enclosed in double quotes

I need an array with containing the following result:

array(   
   array('nom' => 'Johnny Test', 'adresse' => '[e-mail]'),
   array('nom' => 'Jack', 'adresse' => '[e-mail]'),     
   array('nom' => 'Scott Summers', 'adresse' => '[e-mail]') 
   ... 
   )

Answer 1

preg_match_all('/(.*?)\s<(.*?)>,?/', $string, $hits);
print_r($hits);

something like this should work.

If you have \r\n inside the string use this before parsing it with the regex:

$chars=array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
$string=str_replace($chars, '', $string);

UPDATE: Code I’m using to test this.

test_preg2.php:

<?php
$html='"Johnny Test" <[e-mail]>,Jack <[e-mail]>,"Scott Summers" <[e-mail]>';
$chars=array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
$html=str_replace($chars, '', $html);
preg_match_all('/(.*?)\s<(.*?)>,?/', $html,$hits);
print_r($hits);
?>

Output:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => "Johnny Test" , [1] => Jack , [2] => "Scott Summers" ) [1] => Array ( [0] => "Johnny Test" [1] => Jack [2] => "Scott Summers" ) [2] => Array ( [0] => [e-mail] [1] => [e-mail] [2] => [e-mail] ) ) 

UPDATE 2: the string has been formated with htmlentities(). (the sample string of the question is wrong man…)

preg_match_all('/(.*?)\s<(.*?)>,?/', $string, $hits);
print_r($hits);