Monks,

I found this node Common Regex's because I need a regular expression to match any email address. I tried using the 6000 character beast LeG0 recommends in the above node, but I received a bunch of error messages : 
(ie. Backslash found where operator expected at ./whois.pl line 20, ne
+ar "]\"
        (Missing operator before \?)
Backslash found where operator expected at ./whois.pl line 20, near "0
+37\"
        (Missing operator before \?)<br><br>

-----------About 30 more similar error's----------------------

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I have two questions:

  1. Has an easier way been discovered to match an email address since this node was written? I would even settle for something that matches just 75% of the time. I will also need to capture this to $1. Not sure if this makes any difference.
  2. When I copied and paste this regex into my ssh terminal, I got a newline for each line break, so I manually joined the lines together with vi. Is there a way to copy and paste a long regex like this into my program without having to join all the lines afterwards.
I appreciate any help.

-Dru

In reply to Matching any Email Address by dru145

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