The above replies offer good advice as to how to check an obtained e-mail address is valid, but I believe the question was about a regular expression which could pull an e-mail address from a string of text (which you would then, of course, feed to validating code).

I had to do this once at work and knocked up a quick regexp for an e-mail address. I think it's extremely messy, but it seemed to work in all test cases and also in production. (I think it's messy because I made sure words started and ended with only a letter or number, but the middle of words could contain things such as dashes, underscores, single quotes, or what ever was applicable.)

I used: $string =~ /([A-Z0-9]+[A-Z_.'0-9-]*[A-Z0-9]{1}\@{1}(?:[A-Z0-9]+[A-Z0-9-]*[A-Z0-9]{1}\.)+[A-Z0-9]+[A-Z0-9-]*[A-Z0-9]{1})/i; to place the e-mail address in $1.

In reply to Re: E-mail Regular Expression by fx
in thread E-mail Regular Expression by Anonymous Monk

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