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extract email addresses (See related posts) 

<?php

function extract_emails_from($string){
  preg_match_all("/[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i", $string, $matches);
  return $matches[0];
}

$text = "blah blah blah [email protected] blah blah blah [email protected]";

$emails = extract_emails_from($text);

print(implode("\n", $emails));

?>


Context: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=46783
to php email regex by tim on Fri Sep 09 22:52:16 +0000 2005

Comments on this post

Rot posts on Feb 24, 2006 at 15:33
Too simplistic - doesn't account for all email address types and relies on good grammar to prevent it absorbing surrounding text.

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