Question

I need regex to extract names and email from forwarded email message, where part that I want to parse might look like this(It is possible that some cases are missing, but this would be enough for beginning):

<[e-mail]>, "''Steve Pierce''" <[e-mail]>, "Alex" <[e-mail]>, 'Chris Brown' <[e-mail]>, 'Peter Smith' <[e-mail]>, 'Andy McKay, Jr.' <[e-mail]>

Answer 1

Try this

$result = preg_replace('/<([^<>]+)>, ["\']+([^\'"]+)["\']+/', 'person:$2\r\nmailto:$1', $subject);