(Ovid) Re: regex question (new)

Verifying e-mail addresses with a regex is not possible. It is possible to make some guesses, but a regex is not the best solution as one has little to no control over the structure of the e-mail address.

Try Email::Find. It will extract the e-mails for you. Documentation can be found here.

For the record, the following are all structurally valid e-mail addresses (though they don't go anywhere).

Alfred Neuman <Neuman@BBN-TENEXA>
":sysmail"@ Some-Group. Some-Org
Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA
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The above examples were published in CGI programming with Perl, Second Edition. If you'd like more information, check out RFC822.

Cheers,
Ovid

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RE: (Ovid) Re: regex question (new) by agoth (Chaplain) on Nov 10, 2000 at 21:31 UTC
Thanks, but Im not even attempting to validate them at this point, I am simply trying to identify which TD pairs have emails in them to extract the addresses from the file. Its the only identifier I can even vaguely rely on...... Update from the pod: item This module requires 5.005_63 or higher! This module runs so slow as to be unusable with 5.005 stable. I'm not sure, but it might be because I build up my search regex using lots of compiled regexes. Either way, it runs orders of magnitude faster under 5.005_63. that blows me out of the water for starters.....	[reply]

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by agoth (Chaplain) on Nov 10, 2000 at 21:31 UTC

Update from the pod:

item This module requires 5.005_63 or higher!

This module runs so slow as to be unusable with 5.005 stable. I'm not sure, but it might be because I build up my search regex using lots of compiled regexes. Either way, it runs orders of magnitude faster under 5.005_63.

that blows me out of the water for starters.....

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