Remove phrases from string

Question

I have a string like this:

..., "test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>, "test2@test2.com" <test2@test2.com>, "test3@test3.com", "test4@test4.com" <test4@test4.com>, ....

I am exploding everything by , , but problem is that i dont want to have value laike this [0] => "test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com> i need to remove the emails which are in those <..> brackets.

So the result should be like this [0] => test1@test1.com. Any offers how to drop the second phrase?

Answer 1

<?php
$str = '"test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>';
$str= preg_replace("(<.*>+)", "", $str);
print $str;
?>

Answer 2

You can make use of a function that has been especially tailored for such email address lists, for example imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist. Mapping it and extracting the information you need might do it already:

$list     = ""test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>, "test2@test2.com" <test2@test2.com>, "test3@test3.com", "test4@test4.com" <test4@test4.com>";
$adresses = array_map(function($entry) {
    return sprintf('%s@%s', $val->mailbox, $val->host);
}, imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist($list, ""));

This has the benefit that it properly deals with the quoted printable text in front that you have - which done properly is non-trivial (really).

Answer 3

The simplest way here - use strip_tags function (see strip_tags description)

Answer 4

Use Regular Expressions to replace anything between <...> for empty strings, then explode your modified string into an array.

Answer 5

You can explode your text into an array and the run a array_map with a function that cleans your text. Something like this:

function clean($t){
    //Use regexp to replace desired text
    return preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '', $t);
}    

$text = '"test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>, "test2@test2.com" <test2@test2.com>, "test3@test3.com", "test4@test4.com" <test4@test4.com>';
$a = explode(',', $text);
var_dump($a);


$b = array_map("clean", $a);
var_dump($b);

Answer 6

The easiest way is to use preg_match:

preg_match('(<.*>+)', $your_emails, $matches);

print_r($matches); // array of zero or more matches depending on input

Answer 7

if

$yourString='"test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>';

you can use:

$yourString=substr($yourString,1,strpos($yourString,'<')-3);

(edited)

Answer 8

It's a line of code:

array_map(function($a){ return trim($a, ' "'); }, explode(',', strip_tags($string)));

And the whole:

<?php
$string = <<<TK
"test1@test1.com" <test1@test1.com>, "test2@test2.com" <test2@test2.com>, "test3@test3.com", "test4@test4.com" <test4@test4.com>
TK;
$result = array_map(
            function($a){
                return trim($a, ' "');
            },
            explode(',', strip_tags($string))
    );
var_dump($result);

Output:

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(15) "test1@test1.com"
  [1]=>
  string(15) "test2@test2.com"
  [2]=>
  string(15) "test3@test3.com"
  [3]=>
  string(15) "test4@test4.com"
}