I have a local file (a mailbox file actually) that I wish to parse and extract all of the various email addresses from. At this point, I do not care about their validity.

I've located the module Email::Find and installed it. In the POD there is an example given that appears to do what I'm looking for. Problem is the example is object oriented and I've not had any experience with OO thus far. I'm sure this is incredibly simple to those who studied and know OO, but I have not. I've spent a good amount of time searching for code using this module, but haven't found any.

The following is the basic example from the POD (I added my mailbox file): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Email::Find;

$mailbox='./mail/addresses';

my $finder = Email::Find->new(sub {
      my($email, $orig_email) = @_;
      print "Found "..$email->format."\n";
      return $orig_email;
      });

$finder->find(\$text);

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I need a little bit of a kickstart to get to understanding how to use the module.

In reply to Email::Find question by cajun

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