$string = preg_replace('/\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|$!:,.;]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/i', '', $string);

function slug($str){ $str = strtolower(trim($str)); $str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str); $str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str); return $str; }

$fh = fopen("contacts.csv", "r"); while($line = fgetcsv($fh, 1000, ",")) { echo "Contact: {$line[1]}"; }

function contains($str, $content, $ignorecase=true){ if ($ignorecase){ $str = strtolower($str); $content = strtolower($content); } return strpos($content,$str) ? true : false; }

function String_Begins_With($needle, $haystack { return (substr($haystack, 0, strlen($needle))==$needle); }

function extract_emails($str){ // This regular expression extracts all emails from a string: $regexp = '/([a-z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-z0-9]{2,4})+/i'; preg_match_all($regexp, $str, $m); return isset($m[0]) ? $m[0] : array(); } $test_string = 'This is a test string... test1@example.org Test different formats: test2@example.org; <a href="test3@example.org">foobar</a> <test4@example.org> strange formats: test5@example.org test6[at]example.org test7@example.net.org.com test8@ example.org test9@!foo!.org foobar '; print_r(extract_emails($test_string));