If you are expecting the email address to always be the same but the first part being different you can create a regular expression to match it that way. Using a regular expression over all is going to be your best bet as shiplu suggested. On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:54 AM, shiplu <shiplu.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think you meant extract emails from document, right? > > I'd probably find `@` and iterate before and after unless I get posix > punct, space, characters. But it'll probably give some false matches. So > its really hard to find 100% emails from an arbitrary text. This is because > valid email can contain many different type of characters. According to RFC > 822 space is a valid character in email. So finding all the valid emails is > tough. > In a *trivial situation* an email would be separated by space. So find @ > first. Then go back and front to find the first space. You'll get most > common emails. Something like using this regex pattern > [^[:space:]<@]+@[^[:space:]>]+ would suffice. > But keep in mind, it'll work on trivial cases. Not on special cases. > Regular expression can not be used on special cases. Here is full RFC-822 > compliant email matching regular expression > http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html > > > More information can be found on > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-expression-to-validate-an-email-address > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi gang: > > > > I thought I had a function to strip emails from a document, but I can't > > find it. > > > > So, before I start writing a common script, do any of you have a simple > > script to do this? > > > > Here's an example of the problem: > > > > Before: > > > > "Will Alex" <alex13@xxxxxxxxxxx>;"Moita Zact" <zact3@xxxxxxxxxxx>;"Bob > > Arms" <arms1@xxxxxxxxxxx>;"Meia Terms" <termsma@xxxxxxxxxxx>; > > > > After: > > > > alex13@xxxxxxxxxxx > > zact3@xxxxxxxxxxx > > arms1@xxxxxxxxxxx > > termsma@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Cheers, > > > > tedd > > > > > > _____________________ > > tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://sperling.com > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > Shiplu.Mokadd.im > ImgSign.com | A dynamic signature machine > Innovation distinguishes between follower and leader >
