[php-list] preg_match_all pattern for email address

[Mike Brandonisio]

Hi,

I'm trying to flag and mask emails from a text string. I found this  
on Zend but cannot get it to work. It is supposed to create an array  
of email addresses but I think there is something wrong in the  
'preg_match_all' call for the pattern. I cannot figure out if this  
pattern is even correct.

   function get_emails ($str)
   {
     $emails = array();
     preg_match_all("/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/", $str, $output);
     foreach($output[0] as $email) array_push ($emails, strtolower 
($email));
     if (count ($emails) >= 1) return $emails;
     else return false;
   }

   # Here is how to use it.

   # Sample string containing email addresses;
   $str = "test [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha ha [EMAIL PROTECTED] bla bla [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]";

   # Get the emails on arrays;
   $emails = get_emails ($str);

   # Print that arrays;
   print_r ($emails);

Sincerely,
Mike
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