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function: extract_macaddress

Regex function to extract a mac address from a string Very usefull for parsing snmp information. Returns a cleanly formatted mac address (if found)

Info

@author Kevin van Zonneveld
@version 1.0
@link http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
@param (string) $data The haystack to search in

Example

Usage
echo extract_mac($snmp_results);

Outputs
00:0F:EA:80:56:5A

Source Code

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<?  
function extract_macaddress($data){
  
  if(!preg_match("/([0-9a-fA-F]{2}[:|\s]){5}([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/",$data,$match))return false;
  return str_replace(" ", ":", trim(reset($match)));
}
?>

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