regular expression from input file

gcazian has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi. Sorry, I'm a bit of a Perl novice, so forgive me if this question seems silly. I have an output file with a very long string. Here is a sample of the file:

 <who><presence from='username1@myserver.mydomain.com/Exodus' to='user
+name2@myserver.mydomain.com'>
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Basically, I want to use regular expressions to extract any of the addresses that occur in between <presence from=' and the following ' character (so in the example above, I would like to extract "username1@myserver.mydomain.com/Exodus"). Anyone willing to point me in the right direction? Thanks.

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Re: regular expression from input file by pzbagel (Chaplain) on Jan 16, 2004 at 02:16 UTC
`my @out=/<presence from='([^']*)'/g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regular expression from input file by borisz (Canon) on Jan 16, 2004 at 02:18 UTC
`/<presence from='([^']*)'/` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]