Question

I have the following String

First Last <[e-mail]>

I would like to extract

"first.last" 

from the email string using regex & PHP. How to go about this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I know the answer was already accepted, but this will work on any valid email address in the format of: Name <identifier@domain>

// Yes this is a valid email address
$email = 'joey <"joe@work"@example.com>';

echo substr($email, strpos($email,"<")+1, strrpos($email, "@")-strpos($email,"<")-1);
// prints: "joe@work"

Most of the other posted solutions will fail on a number of valid email addresses.