Greeting monks,

I am trying to extract an email address from a log file that has other information in it. When I run the following code: 
#!perl -w
open(TRACKDATA, "> C:\\myData") or die "can't open data";

open(TRACKLOG, "C:\\myLog,txt") or die "can't open log";

while (<TRACKLOG>) 
{
    
    chomp;
       

    ($email) = /\s(.*@.*)\s/;
    
    print TRACKDATA "$email\n";
    
}

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It gets the email address but it also returns everything after it. Its been a while since I've worked with regular expressions but I thought you could capture everthing within "()" and stop it with characters berfor and after. What am I missing. Thanks in advance for any prayers or meditations.

In reply to RegEx for email help by Anonymous Monk

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