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How can we extract string "w3answers.com" from a string mailto:info@w3answers.com using regular expression of PHP ?

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Answer:

<?php
$w3 = "mailto:info@w3answers.com";
preg_match('|.*@([^?]*)|', $w3, $w3output);
echo $w3output[1];
?>

or explode

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 10:27.

Regular expressions are nice, but sometimes they are just not needed..

eg
$w3 = "mailto:info@w3answers.com";
list($person,$host) = explode('@',$w3); will do the job without as much overhead;

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