Re: Parse a string containing name and email

Hello, on 03/06/2010 11:34 PM Don said the following: > Hi, > > I am pulling email values out of a database and the format is as follows: > > John Smith<john.smith@somedomain.com> > > I need to parse the string into two variables as such > > $name = John Smith > $email = john.smith@somedomain.com > > What would be the easiest way to do this? You may want to take a look at the MIME parser package. It comes with a separate class name RFC 822 addresses that can be used exactly to parse e-mail addresses in any valid format that may appear in message headers: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/