How to get email address from a long string

Question

In PHP, I have a string like this:

$string = \"user@domain.com MIME-Version: bla bla bla\";

How do i get the email address only? Is there a

Answer 1

If you're not sure which part of the space-separated string is the e-mail address, you can split the string by spaces and use

filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)

on each substring.