eregi problem (Please Help)

[Anon]

Hello... I'm writing a simple script to search for email addresses on a page and echo them to the screen. For some reason my eregi function is not working..

I would really appreciate any help. Thanks

<?php
$url = "http://www.domain.com/page.html";
$fp = fopen ("$url", "r");
while($line=fgets($fp,4096)) {
eregi("^{0-9a-z@0-9a-z\.[a-wyz]a-z?$",$line,$matches);}

echo $matches[0];
echo $matches[1];
echo $matches[2];
echo $matches[3];
}
fclose($fp);

?>

[Anon]

I am not good with regular expressions, but I wouldn't read the file line by line. The reason being, if it is an HTML page, the address could be split across 2 lines and still be a valid address, but it will not match in the regualar expression, because only part of the address appears on a line.

someone@
adomain.com

That will show on a page as a valid email, but the regular expression will not catch it, because it is split across 2 lines.

I would use someting like

$File = file("url");
$fileStr = implode('',$File);

Then run the regular expression on $fileStr. I won't guarentee this is any better, just the way I would try it.

Also, I believe when using the Array to catch the matches, it may not give you exactly what you expect.

$example_string = "To all who are concerned about anything";

eregi('a',$example_string,$matches)

I believe this would result in:

$matches[0] == "all who are concerned about anything"
$matches[1] == "are concerned about anything"
$matches[2] == "about anything"
$matches[3] == "anything"

Which is probaly not quite what you would expect.

I realize this does not solve your problem, but it may help to move your thinking in the right direction.