Question

This should be an easy one, but I’m tired and not thinking straight at the time.

I have the following string:

"Brian Hannah <[e-mail]>"

I want to extract the name and email address into separate variables using PHP.

Answer 1

Just for completeness, here’s an approach using regular expressions:

preg_match('/^(.*)<(.*)>$/', $s, $matches);

See it working online: ideone

Since the * is greedy in the first match, a string like A<B <c.d> will be parsed as "A<B", "<c.d>", and not "A", "<B <c.d>". To change this write (.*?) instead.