Hi Monks, Here's yet another simple task that is confounding me. I sent out an emailer to a list of clients. It had been a while sine the owner had used the list, so not suprisingly, there were a lot of bounces. I congealed the bounced addresses into a file bad_emails from the address book, and wrote a little ditty to turn the paragraph style collage into a nice neat column. I also will have to do dup removals, once I get the (explicitive) thing to match more than one email address per line.

The next task is to compare the list to the original list and remove the matches: raw list - bad list = good list.

But before I can do that, I need to fix my regex, as it seems to only match the first one in each line. I obviously don't have the grasp of /g I thought I did. 

 push (@list, "$1\n") and $count++
  if /\b([\w]+@[\w]+\.[\w]{3})\b/g;

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Why am I only getting 1 match per line? Heres a smaple line from the data file:

wings@yahoo.com <wings@yahoo.com>; wine@hotmail.com <wine@hotmail.com>;

In reply to scripty email address regex stuff by mkahn

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