How to extract the emails from the JSON in the PHP array?

How can I get the emails from this array?

array(16) { 
    [0]=> stri开发者_JAVA百科ng(273) ""guid":"","contactId":"44","contactName":"_, atri","email":"atri_megrez@yahoo.com","emaillink":"http:\/\/mrd.mail.yahoo.com\/compose?To=atri_megrez%40yahoo.com","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"atri_megrez","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":122}," 
    [1]=> string(260) ""guid":"","contactId":"100","contactName":"afrin","email":"fida_cuty123@yahoo.com","emaillink":"http:\/\/mrd.mail.yahoo.com\/compose?To=fida_cuty123%40yahoo.com","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false}," 
    [2]=> string(258) ""guid":"","contactId":"101","contactName":"afrin","email":"waliyani@yahoo.com","emaillink":"http:\/\/mrd.mail.yahoo.com\/compose?To=waliyani%40yahoo.com","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false},"
}

It looks like each of the strings in that array is JSON data.

If you're using a modern version of PHP, you can use json_decode() to get to the data into a usable format.

foreach($array as $string) {
    $json = json_decode($string);
    echo "Email = {$json->email}\n";
}

If you could post an example of the data (eg: where it comes from, a properly formatted example of the print_r() output of the array) that would help, however from what I can gather this will get the emails from the array:

/* Make $array hold the given array */

$emails = array();
foreach($array as $contact){
    $emails[] = $contact['email'];
}

// All emails
print_r($emails);

you can run a regexp on every array element. something like this: /"email":"(.+?)"/

$emails = array();
foreach ($array as $str)
{
    if (preg_match('/"email":"(.+?)"/', $str, $matches))
    {
        $emails[] = $matches[1];
    }
}