Re: Regular expression

If you still like to gather the information without using any tools: $email = explode( "\n" , $mailText ); foreach ( $email AS $emailLine ) { $emailLine = trim( $emailLine ); if ( strtoupper ( substr( $emailLine , 0 , 4 ) ) == 'FROM' ) { preg_match( '#^from\s*:\s*([^>]+)(<([^>]+)>)?#si' ,$emailLine ,$parts ); break ; } } $name = $parts[1] ; $email = $parts[3] ; But you should consider the following: FROM: Red Wingate <redeye@erisx.de> FROM: Red Wingate FROM: redeye@erisx.de ..... Which makes working like this a pita. -- red > I suggest not using a regex. > > There are better tools for parsing an email, for example "formail". > > $email = formail -x Return-Path; > > See google.com for more information > > Regards, > Aidan > > > "Syed Ghouse" <syed@jinis.com> wrote in message > news:00d701c45e83$9a662a50$495aa8c0@jinis.com... > Hi All > > will anyone give me a solution to get the name and email address of sender > from the mail text below using regular expression. > > The result shud get > name as syed ghouse > and > email as syed@jinis.com > > --- Mail text start --- > > Return-Path: <avijayanand@sdmimd.com> > Delivered-To: syed@sdmimd.com > Received: (qmail 25523 invoked by uid 508); 19 Jun 2004 06:23:25 -0000 > Received: from localhost (HELO 192.168.90.8) (127.0.0.1) > by mail.jinis.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2004 06:23:25 -0000 > Received: from 192.168.90.20 (proxying for 192.168.90.85) > (SquirrelMail authenticated user vijayanand@sdmimd.com) > by 192.168.90.8 with HTTP; > Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:53:25 +0530 (IST) > Message-ID: <4875.192.168.90.20.1087626205.squirrel@192.168.90.8> > Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:53:25 +0530 (IST) > Subject: test > > From : 'syed ghouse' <syed@jinis.com> > > To: vijayanand@sdmimd.com > Cc: syed@sdmimd.com,sss@sdmimd.com > User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-Priority: 3 > Importance: Normal > > test mail ignore > > --- Mail text end --- > > > Regards > > Syed