Harvest Emails From Text File

PHP, Programming — December 21, 2008 at 14:23

You might have a text file with a lot of emails, extracted from a mail client or a CSV file created with some script.

Nonetheless, you want to extract all the valid email addresses (user@domain.ext) from the file. Pass this function a file

(you can rename it to .php, or .txt, or .csv) and it will extract all addresses.

function extract_emails_from($string) {
preg_match_all("/[._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i", $string, $matches);
return $matches[0];
}


Usage:

<?php
extract_emails_from('myfile.txt');
?>

Tags: email, file, harvest