How do you strip domain name from an email address?

[neophyte]

Hello All -

I need to take an email address, strip off the "@" and full domain name and then add a random number to the result.

I know how to add the random number, but I'm unsure of the easiest way to strip the "@" and full domain name since they'd all be different.

So, for example, I:

1. [e-mail]
2. Run it through some routine that gives me
3. "bozobigears"

I'm sure this is very elementary, but I appreciate any guidance anyone can offer.

Neophyte

[jatar_k]

you could just split [php.net] on the @

[BarryStCyr]

Why do you want to do this? It looks like you are creating email addresses to spoof email filtering programs.

Hope that's not what you are doing.

Barry

[neophyte]

Jatar -

Thanks for the hint. I'll try "split"

Barry -

No, I'm not trying to do anything wrong. I've heard of "spoofing" but don't know what it means or does.

This is simply to generate a hotel reservation confirmation number based upon the first half of a users email address.

Neophyte