Question

I have this preg_match pattern `/admin[^:]*:\s*(.* )/i for this subject(as sample)

txt stuff
Administrative Contact:
Brown, John [e-mail]
txt stuff

to pull out “Brown, John [e-mail]” but I need something to search and print “Brown, John” (name) only and not the whole line (everything as name but not email).
This is a piece of large text and the only static string is “Administrative Contact:”.

Thanks

Answer 1

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$str = 'txt stuff
Administrative Contact:
Brown, John [e-mail]
txt stuff';

preg_match('~admin[^:]*:\s*(.*)\s+\S+@~i', $str, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]); // string(11) "Brown, John"