php - Regex, get string value between two characters

Question

I'd like to return string between two characters, @ and dot (.).

I tried to use regex but cannot find it working.

(@(.*?).)

Anybody?

Answer 1

Your regular expression almost works, you just forgot to escape the period. Also, in PHP you need delimiters:

'/@(.*?)./s'

The s is the DOTALL modifier.

Here's a complete example of how you could use it in PHP:

$s = 'foo@bar.baz';
$matches = array();
$t = preg_match('/@(.*?)./s', $s, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

Output:

bar