From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T21:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: scan string w regex .. and HNYTAOY !

On 04.01.2007 13:07, Mat Schaffer wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Josselin wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, that's what I'd also prefer over splitting.

 > 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.

Hm, IMHO the domain part could be a bit better with respect to dots. 
Something like

(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}

In some circumstances something simple like this will even work

[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+

And I bet there is a ton of variants...

Cheers

	robert