Hi everyone, any help would be appreciated:

$message = "This is a message and you can reply via myname@email.com";

Does anyone know how i can

a) Check to see if there is an email in this message.
b) Extract the email address from this message.

Thanks in advance and any explanations of the code would be greatly appreciated.

I always use this to verify an email address is properly formatted

PHP Code:

preg_match("/^( [a-zA-Z0-9] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] )*@( [a-zA-Z0-9_-] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] +)+$/" , $email) 


With $email being the address to be verified.

I think it will work in what you're looking for, it'll find it anyway, but you need to also extract it, so i suggest using:

PHP Code:

preg_match("/^( [a-zA-Z0-9] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] )*@( [a-zA-Z0-9_-] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] +)+$/" , $email, $matches) 


Where $matches is a variable, so you would want $matches[0] I THINK! i'm not totally sure as i've never needed to extract an address, check out the PHP manual about the preg_match() function

Thanks.

I haven't tried it yet, but if anyone regexperts would like to comment, that would be appreciated.