Fw: [PHP] Re: Regular expression

----- Original Message ----- From: "Syed Ghouse" <syed@jinis.com> To: <redeye@erisx.de> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 PM 04:43 Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Regular expression > Thanks Aiden for ur help > > i used ur code and i got > > name as Red Wingate<redeye@erisx.de > and no email. > > So pls correct the code and send me such that i get name and email > separately. > > Regards > syed > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Red Wingate" <redeye@erisx.de> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 PM 04:27 > Subject: [PHP] 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 > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >