From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-27T22:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Extraction

2009/1/27 Newb Newb <revathy.p@angleritech.com>:
> Hi Friends
>
> i have following string
>
> jayabharathy@angleritech.com~Vs~kannan@angleritech.com
>
> the above string has 2 email ids in it.but i need only names of it.
>
> i want to extract only the names
>
> jayabharathy
>
> kannan

Something like this can work, depends of course on the names that you
want to allow:

names = str.scan(/(\w+)@[a-z._-]+/i).flatten

Cheers

robert

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