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With disclaimers about matching general email addresses, the first problem is solved when you realize you want the regex to stop matching on whitespace. You have .* there which matches all of anything. Try this, 

if (/(abuse\@\S*)/) {
    # ...
}

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For the second problem, you want quantifiers, 

if (/(Net-\d{1,3)-\d{1,3)-\d{1,3)-0-1)/) {
    # ...
}

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See perlre and perlretut, which you can view locally with perldoc.

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Zaxo

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Re^2: Help with Metacharacters syntax
by JJB (Novice) on Jun 20, 2004 at 14:53 UTC
    some of the email address are not surrounded by white space. <abuse#tel2.it> or abuse#tel2.it or \abuse#tel2.it\ I need to be able to capture email address that are either surrounded by space or enclosed with special characters but have the special characters dropped.
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