[thelist] testing for email address in perl

[Adrian Fischer]

Thanks,

Regards

Adrian Fischer
http://aussiebidder.com 

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At 09:17 PM 1/12/2002, Adrian Fischer wrote:
>Hi Gang,
>
>I need to be able to test to see if an email address is in a string using
>perl.
>Any ideas on how I pattern match to one.

I'm not the RegEx expert....but you would want to search for a word 
boundary and then interrogate the word found for email like tendencies.

I have a regex around here for a project I did to harvest emails from 
bounce messages. I'll see if I can find it.
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Anthony Baratta
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