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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T10:21:00+00:00 2026-05-13T10:21:00+00:00

I’d like to return string between two characters, @ and dot (.). I tried

I’d like to return string between two characters, @ and dot (.).

I tried to use regex but cannot find it working.

(@(.*?).)

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-13T10:21:01+00:00

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Your regular expression almost works, you just forgot to escape the period. Also, in PHP you need delimiters:

'/@(.*?)\./s'

Here’s a complete example of how you could use it in PHP:

$s = 'foo@bar.baz';
$matches = array();
$t = preg_match('/@(.*?)\./s', $s, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

Output:

bar