--- Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to grab an email address from an arbitrary string of text. The > string will only have 1 '@' symbol. > > I need a regexp that will search for this symbol and return the whole word. > > It will appear like this: > > blah blah blah 12112 blah [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah some more text..... > > I want to grab the email address and place it in a variable. > > Can anyone help me out? > > Thanks, > CC
Check out Email::Find (http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/Email-Find/Email/Find.html). Writing your own regex to parse email addresses is non-trivial and, in fact, impossible. Even the huge regex for matching email addresses that is found in Mastering Regular Expressions is acknoweldged by the author to be imperfect. Due to the way that email addresses are defined by RFC 822, it's very, very difficult to be sure you're matching them properly. To consider the difficulty of doing this yourself, consider the following syntactically valid email addresses (lifted directly from page 218 of CGI Programming with Perl, second edition): Alfred Neuman <Neuman@BBN-TENEXA> ":sysmail"@ Some-Group. Some-Org Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
