preg_match to extract mailto on anchor

Question

I need to get the email adress from an anchor with a mailto attribute with regex.

this pattern: (.*)

Answer 1

Your delimiter is a quote ', and there are some instances of it in the regex:

preg_match("'(.*)(.*)(.*)'si", "Some email", $matches);
                                      ^                                              ^

Escape them (i.e.: \') or change your delimiter.