preg_match_all regular expression error

[CrashRoX]

$string = "Adam G - [email][e-mail][/email], Brian J - [email][e-mail][/email], Eric Z - [email][e-mail][/email]";

preg_match_all('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$', $string, $array);

var_dump($array);

I got the error: Warning: No ending delimiter '^' found

I cant figure out what I did wrong :\ Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

[poison]

preg_match_all('/^[a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$/', $string, $array);

although it's not very elegant or even false...if it should grep the email adresses out that string...

preg_match_all('/\w[-.\w]*\@[-a-z0-9]+(\.[-a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,4}/smi' , $string, $result);

would be the more appropriate version
(although not 100% correct =P)
regards

[CrashRoX]

Thank you, that seemed to work. But for learning purposes im curious why I was getting my error...

[poison]

regular expressions are enclosed inside //

[CrashRoX]

this regualr expression stuff is confusing... First attempt at it today, heh... Thanks again

[poison]

this regualr expression stuff is confusing

hmm...I wouldn't say that...it's an easy way to do very complex stuff without writing a few thousand lines of code and you can use it almost everywhere...every (scripting-)?language....grep, sed, awk, ...and all the editors I can think of support it 😉

Thanks again

np =D