[kwlug-disc] PHP, email addresses and regular expressions

[Chris Bruner]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i want to write a PHP function that takes a moderately sane email
> address and breaks it into its components and returns those pieces as
> an array.  there are only two possibilities i will accept:
>
>   full addresses:  "Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>"
>   short addresses: rpjday at crashcourse.ca
>
> what i want to get back is, in both cases above, the first two
> elements of the array being the username ("rpjday") and domain
> ("crashcourse.ca"), and *then*, in the full case, the third element of
> the array will be the full name ("Robert P. J. Day").  on totally
> invalid email address, NULL shall be returned.
>
>   in a few minutes, i lashed together the following:
>
> =====
>   
You might want to look at explode.
I think you can do something like
array = explode("'<>@",instring);

and you will get an array of the instring divided into parts separated 
by the elements of "<>@", after that, just rearrange and return what you 
want.

> <?php
>
> function break_email_into_pieces($arg)
> {
>     $full_ptn = '/^(.+) *< *(.+)@(.+)>$/';
>     $short_ptn = '/^([^<]+)@([^>]+)$/';
>
>     if (preg_match($full_ptn, $arg, $m)) {
>         return array($m[2], $m[3], trim(trim($m[1]), '"'));
>     } else if (preg_match($short_ptn, $arg, $m)) {
>         return array($m[1], $m[2]);
>     } else {
>         return NULL;
>     }
> }
>
> $addr = 'Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>';
> var_dump(break_email_into_pieces($addr));
>
> $addr = '"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>';
> var_dump(break_email_into_pieces($addr));
>
> $addr = '<rpjday at crashcourse.ca>';
> var_dump(break_email_into_pieces($addr));
>
> $addr = 'rpjday at crashcourse.ca';
> var_dump(break_email_into_pieces($addr));
>
> ?>
>
> =====
>
>   it all seems to work and i don't need the routine to be
> spectacularly robust since i'm extracting the addresses from emails as
> they go flying by so i can assume there's a good chance they're
> RFC3696-compatible and i'm just grabbing strings out of the To: and
> From: fields of those addresses.
>
>   thoughts?  anything critical i'm missing?  any elegant improvements?
> it looks good now but i'm always open to good advice.
>
> rday
> --
>
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
>             Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
>
> Web page:                                          http://crashcourse.ca
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