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Ever wondered how spammers can get your email address? That’s simple, they get web pages (such as forums) and simply parse the html to extract emails. This function extracts all emails adresses from a given string, and returns them as array.

function extract_emails($str){
    // This regular expression extracts all emails from
    // a string:
    $regexp = '/([a-z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-z0-9]{2,4})+/i';
    preg_match_all($regexp, $str, $m);

    return isset($m[0]) ? $m[0] : array();
}

$test_string = 'This is a test string...

        test1@example.org

        Test different formats:
        test2@example.org;
        <a href="test3@example.org">foobar</a>
        <test4@example.org>

        strange formats:
        test5@example.org
        test6[at]example.org
        test7@example.net.org.com
        test8@ example.org
        test9@!foo!.org

        foobar
';

print_r(extract_emails($test_string));
 

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