There is a CPAN module that will match email addresses inside a string; Email::Find. Here's an example using this module:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Email::Find qw(find_emails);

use vars qw(@MATCHES);

my $text = 'user@somewhere.com not an email address me@home.com';

find_emails($text, \&callback);

print join "\n", @MATCHES;

sub callback {
  my $email    = shift;
  my $original = shift;

  push @MATCHES, $email->format;
  return $original;
}

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Warning: the find_emails() routine will modify the original text. Make sure that you always return the original email text (as shown above), so that your input text does not mysteriously change.

In reply to (dkubb) Re: (2) pattern match e-mail addresses by dkubb
in thread pattern match e-mail addresses by Fian

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