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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:24:49+00:00

I’d like to allow users to paste in a list of new line separated

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I’d like to allow users to paste in a list of new line separated contacts and have an array of names and emails generated efficiently.

Let’s say the possibilities of the entries are:

John, foo@corp.com
foo@corp.com, John
John foo@corp.com
foo@corp.com John
foo@corp.com // will have the [name] key empty
John // will not be considered if there is no email

Currently my solution is to explode by \n then explode by commas then guess where the email and names are. I admit that this is totally unreliable and that’s why i’d like to see how others can approach this.

The array i’m trying to come up with is like:

array(
 [0] => array(
         [name] => John,
         [email] => foo@corp.com
        )
 [1] => ...
)

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    instead of using explode to split the strings, you may want to look into using a regex split:

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php

    This way you can split the string by space, comma, or both all in one line of code. would probably look something like this:

    $array = preg_split('#[ |,]+#', $input);

    Then you can check each field with filter_var() to see which is the email address.

    filter_var('bob@example.com', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php

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