Detecting emails in a text

Question

I\'m trying to create a function that translates every occurrence of a plain text email address in a given string into it\'s htmlized version.

Let\'s say I h

Answer 1

$str = preg_replace('/([a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})/', '$1', $str);

where ([a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}) is the regular expression used for detecting an email address (this is a general example, email addresses may be more complicated than this and not all addresses may be covered, but finding the perfect regex for emails is up to you)