Seaching for string in string

[simon622]

Hi ppl.

Im absolutely rubbish with regexp! I have a String which could be of any length and contain many !"£$%^&*() symbols. I need to parse this string and find any email addresses within it - and simply replace just this part of the String.

I would imagine this is quite a common problem.

E.g:

$s = "hello world, [e-mail] is my email address but this@here is not!";

becomes:

echo $s;

Hello world ******** is my email address but this@here is not!

Can anyone help?

[toplay]

Just pick one of the many email expressions at:

http://www.regexlib.com/Search.aspx?k=email

then use that expression in a preg_replace().

hth.