RE: [PHP-WIN] extracting email addresses

>1. I have "some" basic programming skills >(see sites I already programmed by Well, quite nice design!, but... <yaaawn> what do you want for that? A medal or what? ;-) >and some more sites...) BUT I expect to find here some >people they will TEACH me something I still do not know >(and, of course, there is a still a lot of things I do not know). Isn't that true for each and every one... ;-) >2. I'm sorry not being specific: the large text file is simply .txt file. A >huge amount of text with email addresses within it. I never had a problem >like this and just wanted some ideas, like Michael Kelly did it. Well, you just don't get it: extracting information like that is regarded as a very basic trivial programming problem. If a programmer is not able to formulate a trivial problem like that in programming or meta-programming statements, then that programmer is not worth being named a programmer. But on the contrary: Most normal intelligent persons without any programming skills are able to put together a workable program if they only have a manual, because humans are creative beings. But then manage to make a program that works for a task doesn't mean that these guy can do programming! These fellows will usually construct programs that a experience programmer would, to put it nicely, call "unusual constructions". Probably these program will suffer from bad degrees of coupling and cohesion (aka: spaghetti programs in popular terms). >3. I found solution. Good! Regards, /Anders D.S. Your description above about the file with e-mail address is still not sufficient enough for a programmer to understand how (s)he should employ an algorithm to extract e-mail addresses from it. You suffer from the "general-customer-ignorance-problem", where the customer believes that programmers are mind reader and can extract all the details from a transcendental spiritual plane... Well, let me tell you this: programming haven't reached that state - yet. :) D.S.