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?

Accepted Answer

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
```

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