Re: Stripping characters.....

In article <email-871525.23331427042002@pb1.pair.com>, email@cczona.com (Cc Zona) wrote: > In article <5.1.0.14.2.20020428011219.02071998@redhotsweeps.com>, > mail@redhotsweeps.com (Cditty) wrote: > > > ie....User email address is "Chris Ditty" > > <mail@redhotsweeps.com> or Chris Ditty <mail@redhotsweeps.com> > > > > I need to be able to strip the quotes and everything between them and the > > < > signs from the first one and then the name and the < > signs from the > > second. > > > > Does anyone know how to do this quickly and easily? > > <http://php.net/preg-replace>. For example: > > preg_replace('/^.*<(.+)>.*$/',"$1",$mailstring); Whoops. Hit send too quickly. That should be: $newstring=preg_replace('/^.*<(.+)>.*$/',"$1",$mailstring); Note that this is *just* an example. It will break where there are multiple addressees, a less-than sign in the addressee's name, etc. -- CC