I'm extracting data from emails. I have pieces of text like this:
Eg. 1: some standard text. Bugs Bunny [email protected] 0411111111 more standard text
Eg. 2: some standard text. Bugs The Bunny [email protected] 0411111111 more standard text
Eg. 3: some standard text. Bugs Bunny [email protected] 0411111111 more standard text
Eg. 4: some standard text. Bugs [email protected] +6141 111 111 more standard text
As you can see, there is a name, email and phone number that I want to extract. The email should be easy enough, and I'm sure I can work out the phone options but how could I get the name?
I know the logic is: get the text after some standard text. and before the the first non-space-separated string before the @, but how?
This is my starting point (?<=some standard text. )(.*?)(?=@)
This gives me a result with a group (?<=some standard text. )(.*?)(?:[\w-\.]+)@ so I think I'm on the right path.
I'm using php.
Here is a quick version/example I came up with:
(?<=some standard text. )(.*?) ([^\s]+@[^\s]+) (\+?\d+(?:\s\d+)*)
regex101.com/r/Wjz66g/1
It's not perfect, but it does follow along the same lines as what you were doing and might work enough.