The following code works to a point. It is writing name and email address out to a file. The only real problem is the msg "Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (32766) exceeded at /usr/share/perl5/Email/Address.pm line 108." 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
use File::Slurp qw( read_file );
use Email::Address;

my $directory = '/home/*****/Mail/.family.directory/Browne, Bill & Ma+
+rtha';';
my $outfile = 'output.txt';

my @found_files;
find( sub { push @found_files, $File::Find::name }, $directory );

foreach(@found_files){
    my $file = "$_";
  
    if (-f $file)
    {
    print $_,"\n";
    my $intext = File::Slurp::read_file( $file );
    my @emails = Email::Address->parse( $intext );
    
    File::Slurp::write_file( $outfile, {append => 1 }, join("\n", @ema
+ils) );
    }
}

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The file that the warning msg appears has a large attachment. So, somehow need to bypass any attachments in the slurp ?

In reply to Re^3: extracting name & email address by peterr
in thread extracting name & email address by peterr

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