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Asked: 2026-05-27T18:27:38+00:00

So I tried this regex: $email = ”; preg_match(‘<.*?>’, ‘sadfas<email@email.com>’, $email); echo $email[0]; The

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So I tried this regex:

$email = '';
preg_match('<.*?>', 'sadfas<email@email.com>', $email);
echo $email[0];

The target result is so to extract ’email@email.com’ since it is between the < and > sign…but it did not work…

What did I do wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You forgot the regular expression delimiters (/ is a popular delimiter). You should also use a sub-pattern to match only the address and not the <>:

    preg_match('/<(.*?)>/', 'sadfas<email@email.com>', $email);
echo $email[1];

    Alternatively, you could do a look-ahead and look behind to avoid using the sub-pattern:

    preg_match('/(?<=<).*?(?=>)/', 'sadfas<email@email.com>', $email);
echo $email[0];
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