brackets <> screwing up my string search

[codebreaker]

I am trying to perform a match on strings of data. Each string will be a line from an email template. I want to extract the info from each header in the template. What I have works well, so long as there are no brackets <> in there, like what normally surrounds an email address.

The template looks like this:

--Begin Template
To: Joe McCarthy <[e-mail]>
From: Me <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hey!

This is the body of the message.
--End Template

And here it is some code for illustration.

# These are the fields I want to find (there are more) 
$EmailFields[0] = 'To'; 
$EmailFields[1] = 'From'; 
$EmailFields[2] = 'Subject'; 
# Load in the template 
$file = file("MessageTemplate.txt"); 
# Take each line, and regexp each header field 
foreach ($file as $line_num => $line) { 
 foreach ($EmailFields as $Field) { 
 if (preg_match("/^$Field {0,1}: {0,1}(.+)$/", $line, $matches)) { 
 # Got a match, record the  
 $Headers["$Field"] = $matches[1]; 
 echo $Headers["$Field"] . "<BR>";  
 } 
 } 
} 

As I said, It works just fine as long as there are not brackets. Assuming the first line of the template is

"To: Joe McCarthy [e-mail]"

then the first entry in $Header would be

"Joe McCarthy [e-mail]"

But if I enclose an email address in brackets

"To: Joe McCarthy <[e-mail]>"

then the email address (and brackets) is not added to $Headers

"Joe McCarthy " (WITH the space at the end)

Anybody have an idea why? Thanks.

[a1call]

Hi codebreaker,
The browser does not show items in the <>. Look at the source code and everything should be there. This might help:

<?php
$a="To: Joe McCarthy <[e-mail]>";
echo($a."<br>");
$a= explode('<', $a);
$a=implode("", $a);
$a= explode('>', $a);
$a=implode("", $a);
echo($a);
?>

Browser output:

To: Joe McCarthy
To: Joe McCarthy [e-mail]

I'm sure this can be done more efficiently and with less code than mine.

[codebreaker]

Hi a1call,

You know, sometimes you (actually, me) can get so wrapped up in the more difficult stuff, that you forget to check the obvious stuff. How could I have missed that?

I'm almost mad that the answer was so easy. :)

Thanks -codebreaker

[a1call]

Hi codebreaker,

Please don't get mad. This is about the extents of the difficulty I could help with. If you had any problem with the rest of your code, you would have to wait for a real expert to reply:)

[jatar_k]

hey codebreaker

don't let it get you mad, us old fellas call it "needing an extra pair of eyes"

just means we know we missed something obvious ;)