Re: Fw: [PHP] Re: Regular expression

First of all check who u credit :p Secondly why don't you just try to fix it yourself? There was just a typo in the regexp: - #^from\s*:\s*([^>]+)(<([^>]+)>)?#si + #^from\s*:\s*([^<]+)(<([^>]+)>)?#si Hopefully this will help you even more: <?php /** * @param string $runlevel * @return mixed */ function fetchSender ( $mailText ) { $mailText = explode( "\n" , $mailText ) ; foreach ( $mailText AS $mailLine ) { $mailLine = trim ( $mailLine ) ; if ( strtoupper ( substr ( $mailLine , 0 , 4 ) ) == 'FROM' ) { preg_match ( '#^\s*FROM\s*:\s*(([^<]+)(\<([^>]+)\>)?)#si' , $mailLine , $parts ); break ; } } if ( is_array ( $parts ) === FALSE ) { return FALSE ; } else { return array ( 'name' => isset ( $parts[2] ) ? $parts[2] : 'unknown' , 'from' => isset ( $parts[1] ) ? $parts[1] : 'unknown' , 'mail' => isset ( $parts[4] ) ? $parts[4] : 'unknown' ) ; } } /** * @param array $strings * @return void */ function debug_FetchSender ( $strings ) { echo '<pre>'; foreach ( $strings AS $string ) { $sender = fetchSender ( $string ); $sender = array_map ( 'htmlspecialchars' , $sender ) ; print_r ( $sender ); } echo '</pre>'; } debug_FetchSender ( array ( 'FROM: Red Wingate <redeye@erisx.de>' , 'FROM: Red Wingate' , 'FROM: redeye@erisx.de' ) ) ; ?> [...] >> 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 [...]