I am using this statement

if (/(abuse\@.*?)\s/)

This works fine as long as the email address is surrounded by white space. But sometimes the email address is enclosed with special characters, like this <abuse@tel2.con.it> or [abuse@bog-cnn.jp] or \abuse@fars.stores.info\

((abuse\@.*?)\s/) captures the ending non-alpha characters like this abuse@tel2.con.it> which I don’t want.

I tried this to tighten it up (/(abuse\@[\w\.-_]+)\s/) but it finds nothing.

What is correct syntax??

20040620 Edit by Corion: Added formatting

In reply to Capture Email address by JJB

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