Sometimes you need to extract an e-mail address from a format like this:
Name Surname <[email protected]>
In such cases use this function:
/**
* Extract mail address from a string
*
* @param string $emailString
* @return mixed match on success, false on error
*/
function extractEmail( $emailString ) {
/** @var string $result **/
$result = preg_match( '/^(?:[\w.\- ]+<)?([\w._-][email protected][\da-z\.-]+\.[a-z\.]{2,6})>?$/iu', $emailString, $matches );
if( $result === 1 || $result !== false ) {
return $matches[1];
} else {
return false;
}
}
Link to test regular expression used by me is here.
