PHP String Exercises: Extract the user name from the specified email ID

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Write a PHP script to extract the user name from the following email ID.

Sample String : '[email protected]'

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Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
$mailid  = '[email protected]';     // Assigns an email address to the variable $mailid
$user = strstr($mailid, '@', true); // Finds the first occurrence of '@' in $mailid and returns the substring before it
echo $user."\n";                    // Outputs the substring before the '@' character in the email address
?>

Output:

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Explanation:

The above PHP code extracts the username from a given email address stored in the variable '$mailid'. It uses the "strstr(") function with the third parameter set to 'true' to return the substring before the first occurrence of the '@' character. Finally, it echoes the extracted username.

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