Question

I need to extract the email address out of this mailbox string.
I thought of str_replace but the display name and the email address is not static so I don’t know how to do this using regular expressions.

Example: “My name <[e-mail]>” should result in “[e-mail]“.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Matthy

Answer 1

at face value, the following will work:

preg_match('~<([^>]+)>~',$string,$match);

but i have a sneaking suspicion you need something better than that. There are a ton of “official” email regex patterns out there, and you should be a bit more specific about the context and rules of the match.