Removing UTF-8 from text

I have many email address that are stored like this: "=?UTF-8?B?15jXqNeR15XXp9eZ16DXlCDXnteo15nXkNeg15Q=?=" <name@place.com>, "=?UTF-8?B?15nXoNem158g157XqNeZ15Q=?=" <person@domain.com>, "=?UTF-8?B?15zXmSDXpNeV15zXmdeg15Q=?=" <human@site.net> I'm trying to run a script that will leave the file as so: name@place.com, person@domain.com, human@site.net The first step is to remove the UTF-8 names. This code _doesn't_ work, but I think that it should: $text=preg_replace('/\"=\?UTF\-8\?B\?([a-z0-9]+)\?=\"/i', '', $text); I've tried with single and double quotes, and I've tried backslashing and not backslashing the question marks. Where am I erring? Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_monitors.html http://kubuntu.info