From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T21:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: scan string w regex .. and HNYTAOY !


On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Josselin wrote:

> On 2007-01-04 12:47:06 +0100, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> said:
>
>> HNYTAOY  (Dry version of ...  Happy New Year To All Of You)
>> I am trying to get an array of email addresses from a string , as  
>> this string is coming from an input textarea in a from, even if I  
>> ask for a blank between each address, users will also enter  some  
>> return characters...
>> so I get something like :
>> to_string  = "mister.sunnyday@acme.com\r\nmrs_applewhite@eden.com\r 
>> \njohn_doe@nowhere.com amy-millard@heavencanwait.com"
>> I know how to use a_string.scan(" "), but here I should use a  
>> regex.. after many try .. could not find the correct one..
>> could someone make 2007 starting on right tracks....  thanks a lot !!
>> joss
>
> forgot to mention what I wwrote until now :
>
>> to_string.split(%r{\r\n\s*})  which gives me teh addresses  
>> separated by  \r\n , but I missed the addresses separated by spaces


I would just scan for email addresses.  I got this:
  to_string.scan(/[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}/i)

 From this site:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

Which seems to do the job reasonably well.
Happy new year to you too!
-Mat