Parsing a free-rorm field looking for an email address

[Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI)]

On Thu, January 26, 2006 17:44, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> --- "Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton,
> WI)" <mschw at athenet.net> wrote:
>
>>      Does anybody have a routine that parses a
>> free-form line looking for
>> an email address in it?  I thought somebody posted a
>> routine that did
>> this a while ago.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>
> First - to answer your question - I am not aware of
> one.  ISTR that someone posted an edit that does some
> validation on an email address though.  Perhaps you

     Yes, I found that edit posted by Peter Klaassen on 2/14/2001.

     One of the guys I'm working with found some perl code that seems to
do a good job of extracting the emsail addresses, so I think I'm
going to pipe my data out through that and see what happens.

Thanks!

-- 
Mike Schwartz
PC Support & Services
3650 N Suncrest Lane
Appleton, WI 54914