i have this regex string that i got from a website to pull emails from a file:
(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
Ive tested it in regex buddy ( regex testing software ) and it works!
when i copy and paste the regex from regex buddy to my php file, i have to escape 2 " characters to make the regex form a valid string in php.
in php i use it like this:
$file = file_get_contents(/* URL TO GET */);
$email_pattern = "(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|\"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*\")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])";
$matches = array();
if ( preg_match_all ( $email_pattern, $file, $matches ))
{
echo print_r($matches, true);
}
but i get this warning!?!?
Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Unknown modifier '@'
however this regex works in regex buddy?
Where am i going wrong???
2 things:
step 1:
You need to put delimiters ( the / before and after the regex, so that you may add modifier ):
step2:
And as your in a PHP string, you’ll need to escape all the special character ( like \ that must become \\ , and $ that would become \$ , etc… )
So the escape to include the regex in a PHP String should look like this:
And you also have to escape /, as we use that caracter for the delimiter of the first step. So we need the regex to see \/, but as we express the regex in a php string, we will replace / by \\/
If I’m right — usually I use regex buddy too to do the conversion with the PHP export tool, but now I don’t have it so I’ve done it by hand– it should give something LIKE this:
I would also suggest that you put the string inside single quote.