PHP Script to Extract Email Address from any text

sunilbhatia79 · 05-27-2009, 11:09 AM

Dear All,

This is the script that allows anyone to extract email addresses from any text.

http://www.sunilb.com/php/php-script...-from-any-text

Give it a run and let me know your comments.

Regards,
Suniil

dschreck · 06-11-2009, 10:17 AM

i dont really appreciate continuously running into your posts that state nothing more than a link to your own blog...

sunilbhatia79 · 06-11-2009, 10:25 AM

@dschreck I assure you that in future you wont get a chance to complain.

Sakakuchi · 06-11-2009, 11:19 AM

dscreck is right - it's quite annoying.

Still you could shorten the whole function somehow like that:

PHP Code:


			
function extractEmail($string)

{

$regEx = "/([\s]*)[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i";

preg_match_all($regEx, $string, $emails);



return $emails;

}

(There might be some errors still - since it's not tested)

Salathe · 06-11-2009, 12:09 PM

It is a shame to see a long, overly complicated function like that which does not match my email address: salathe+spam@talkphp.com since it returns spam@talkphp.com which is not my email address.

(Sorry Sakakuchi, yours wont match my address either)

Sakakuchi · 06-11-2009, 03:06 PM

jeah, - just wanted to point out that it's possible to solve it with one line of code - when the RegEx is right (well mine is not

)