If you still like to gather the information without using any tools: $email = explode( "\n" , $mailText );
foreach ( $email AS $emailLine ) { $emailLine = trim( $emailLine ); if ( strtoupper ( substr( $emailLine , 0 , 4 ) ) == 'FROM' ) { preg_match( '#^from\s*:\s*([^>]+)(<([^>]+)>)?#si' ,$emailLine ,$parts ); break ; } } $name = $parts[1] ; $email = $parts[3] ; But you should consider the following: FROM: Red Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FROM: Red Wingate FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..... Which makes working like this a pita. -- red > I suggest not using a regex. > > There are better tools for parsing an email, for example "formail". > > $email = `formail -x Return-Path`; > > See google.com for more information > > Regards, > Aidan > > > "Syed Ghouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi All > > will anyone give me a solution to get the name and email address of sender > from the mail text below using regular expression. > > The result shud get > name as syed ghouse > and > email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Mail text start --- > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: (qmail 25523 invoked by uid 508); 19 Jun 2004 06:23:25 -0000 > Received: from localhost (HELO 192.168.90.8) (127.0.0.1) > by mail.jinis.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2004 06:23:25 -0000 > Received: from 192.168.90.20 (proxying for 192.168.90.85) > (SquirrelMail authenticated user [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > by 192.168.90.8 with HTTP; > Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:53:25 +0530 (IST) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:53:25 +0530 (IST) > Subject: test > > From : 'syed ghouse' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-Priority: 3 > Importance: Normal > > test mail ignore > > --- Mail text end --- > > > Regards > > Syed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php