regular expression task

[peterjaz]

i need some code that will take an email address and save everything preceeding the "@" as a variable. example:
[e-mail] becomes "pete". i'm trying to figure it out with the wrox book but i'm stuck. thanks.

[Anon]

substr & strpos are your friends here:

$var=substr($email,0,strpos($email,'@')-1);

[Anon]

Stef has the correct answer for your application but if you decide that you want to keep the domain aswell you can use:

$email = explode("@","[e-mail]");

$email[0] is then = pete and
$email[1] is then = myactingagent.com

[peterjaz]

thanks a million.
$var=substr($email,0,strpos($email,'@')-1);
this code actually gets rid of the char immediately preceeding the "@" so i simply dropped the "-1" and it works like a charm. enjoy the good karma you've created for yourself.
pete

[znouza]

there's various ways to do it, but if you like regexp
<?
$email="[e-mail]";
ereg("^{([@])@(.)",$email,$arg);}
echo "name = $arg[1]; domain = $arg[2]";
?>

or
<?
list($name,$domain)=split("@",email);
?>