quick mail question

[phpscripters]

hello,

I am using the imap_*() function to write a system that will grab email and insert it into a database.

All works fine except one thing, that still works, just not the way i would like. I would like to get ONLY the address of the sender none of that "John Doe <[e-mail]>" crap. I am using the fromaddress part of imap_headerinfo(), and that gives me everything. Anyone know of a way to ONLY get something like "[e-mail]" ?

[leatherback]

Well, regular expressions can filter it out, I suppose. Or, in this case, use a stringmatching for < and >, and get everything between with a substr function?

j.

[Installer]

There are probably a hundred ways to do this with string functions. Here's one:

$addr = 'John Doe <[e-mail]>';
$explode = explode('<', $addr);
$addr = trim($explode[1], '>');
echo $addr;

Off-topic edit: There is such a domain as "doe.com", and probably a good chance someone there has the username "john". With email harvesters all over the place, it's a good idea to use "example.com" for examples.