Re: Stripping characters.....

Clarification: So really, what you want to achieve is to ONLY have the email address? I'm POSITIVE there's a better way with ereg_replace(), but I haven't got time to experiment, and i'm no expert :) So, what I figured was that you would loop through the $email, and if the first char wasn't a "<", strip it out: "Chris Ditty" <mail@redhotsweeps.com> Chris Ditty" <mail@redhotsweeps.com> hris Ditty" <mail@redhotsweeps.com> ris Ditty" <mail@redhotsweeps.com> is Ditty" <mail@redhotsweeps.com> ... <mail@redhotsweeps.com> You're then left with "<something". Assuming all your address' are wrapped in < ... >, you'll now have <mail@redhotsweeps.com>. Then, you want to strip out the leading < and the trailing > only (this means weird email address' which have a < or > in them won't break. You should now have mail@redhotsweeps.com UNTESTED code: <? $email = '"Chris Ditty" <mail@redh>otsweeps.com>'; while (!eregi('^<', $email)) { $email = substr($email, 1); //echo htmlspecialchars($email)."<BR>"; } $email = ereg_replace("^<", "", $email); $email = ereg_replace(">$", "", $email); echo htmlspecialchars($email)."<BR>"; ?> Like I said, this is probably NOT the best solution, just *a* solution, but it should work. It's independent of the "'s you had in there... all it cares about is $email ending with "<something>", getting rid of the preceeding it, and then getting rid of the <>'s that wrap it. You might also like to get rid of anything trailing the >. Uncomment line 6 to watch the progress of the while loop :) Justin French -------------------- Creative Director http://Indent.com.au -------------------- on 28/04/02 4:16 PM, CDitty (mail@redhotsweeps.com) wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone have any snippets of code that will strip several characters > from a string? I am trying to figure out how to do this without using 3 > different if statement blocks. This is what I am looking for. > > 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? > > Thanks > > CDitty >