Re: extracting email lists

Check for regexp. 1) Open the file 2) Load the file in a variable 3) Parse the variable with the regexp 4) Close the file 5) Obtain the "all_emails" variable Byez "Wm" <wm@blanktv.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:3BE997B9.469587E9@blanktv.com... > hi, > > was hoping somebody can help and i want to preface this by stating that > it is > NOT for unsolicited spam mail. i hate that crap. > > we have a bunch of emails from people that have contacted our site. > they have been cut and pasted into a large word document. > > here is an small example of the format: > > <lasjkljsf@lsjdlkf.com> "THIS is - my....name", <kkjf_kdjf@ca.edu> > "john", > <kdjklfjd@lkdjlkf.com, lkdjf@kdjkljfd.com, fkdjkfjd@ldjkld.com> "hello > there" > > with hundreds or thousands like that. > > i was wondering if anybody can help me with extracting just the email > address > from this large .txt file. > > i've tried opening the file into a variable with and without the > htmlspecialchars() function and the < and > are causing problems, and > i'm also not sure what > regexp to use to either get rid of all the "people's names" or to > extract the emails > only. any approaches would be helpful. a regexp that just validates a > single email > address is no help it seems. > > thanks for any help. >