Regex Match in PHP

Hey Guys,

I'm looking to match the following string but having a bunch of problems!

String I want to match:

test@test.com

Code (markup):

String I am trying to pull it out of:

003cdiv class=\"data_field\">test@test.com\u003c\/div>

Code (markup):

Current REGEX I'm using:

preg_match_all('/^[^@]*@[@]*\.[^@]*$/', $this->markup, $email);

Code (markup):

Thanks!

 

preg_match_all("/[a-zA-Z]+[@]+[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+/i", $string, $matched);

PHP:

test@test.com

Code (markup):

 

Thanks but I'm looking to match those characters instead of the actual @ sign. Should I just replace the @ sign with those characters?

 

You can use character code if you wish.

 

That's right.

 

Not sure what you mean by that...exact characters?

 

Try this

$data = "003cdiv class=\"data_field\">test@test.com\u003c\/div>";
$pattern = '#([a-z\-\.\_]+)&\#64;([a-z\-\.]+)#si';
if (preg_match($pattern, $data, $m))
{
         $email = $m[1] . "@" . $m[2];
         echo $email;
}
 

PHP:

 

Thanks gvre that seems to have worked! Could you explain the array 1 and 2? Is it storing it in 2 different areas, thats why?

 

The array is the value returned from the preg_match function. Have a look at when he calls the function he declares $m at the very end, then in turn that allows the programmer to be able to collect those array values. The 1 represents the first condition that matched, the 2 is the second.

More info here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

Kind regards,

Glen