I have pregmatch_all function that scrapes emails ! But the output is kind of weirdly structured and I don’t manage to restructure it.
$str = "Service Client ouvert : du lundi au vendredi de 9h à 20h le samedi de 9h à 18h 01 75 85 83 83 hello@soshape.com So Shape France / Site créé par KL Consult"
$pattern = '/[a-z0-9_-+.]+@[a-z0-9-]+.([a-z]{2,4})(?:.[a-z]{2})?/i';
$preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $output);
print_r($output);
returns
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => hello@soshape.com ) [1] => Array ( [0] => com ) )
Two things please:
- How can I get rid of the “com” array ?
- How can I restructure the array in order to get : Array ( [0] => hello@soshape.com )
Any idea ? (if my question is not clear, do not hesitate to let me know. I’ll be glad to explain further !)
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Answer
As Markus wrote in the comment lets look at the PREG_PATTERN_ORDER flag:
Orders results so that $matches[0] is an array of full pattern matches, $matches[1] is an array of strings matched by the first parenthesized subpattern, and so on.
From the documentation here
Because your patten include () as in ([a-z]{2,4}) the .com is catched as well.
If you only want the emails you can use the PREG_PATTERN_ORDER which will return the matches in index 0 of the return array (as you don’t want the parenthesized subpattern you can ignore the following indexes)
So you can do:
$preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $output, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); print_r($output[0]);