lothar4ever,

You don't say where the data is coming from, so to get your $string to be what you want, you need to escape the '@' signs: 

my $string = qq|sean\@gmail.com, "richard" <richard\@gmail.com>, "john
+" <john\@gmail.com>, <jack\@gmail.com>|;

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For this, I would use 'split': ( tested code, but re-typed from X-Terminal ): 

 my @email = split(/\,/,$string);
 for my $var( 0 .. $#email )
 {    print "$email[$var]\n";
      .....   # put additional code here 
 }

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Now you have an array that you could use a regex or 'split' again on each element of the array in get the format you want. If the data is coming from disk, it maybe that each email address is on a line terminated with a 'CR'.

Hope this helps.

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re^3: Regex for e-mail contacts name by flexvault
in thread Regex for e-mail contacts name by lothar4ever

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