OK, I'm an idiot. I just cannot get a simple regex match to work as intended. I've google, I dug out my books of regex and Perl but I hang my head in shame and ask here for help;
Take This line; Jun 14 08:14:41 pingpong postfix/smtpd[22386]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from host120-109-dynamic.56-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it[82.56.109.120]: 554 5.7.1 <t...@example.com>: Sender address rejected: spoofing of domain; from=<t...@example.com> to=<t...@example.com> proto=SMTP helo=<82.56.109.120> I'm trying to grab the email address in the 'from=<...' portion. I can pin this down with look ahead look behind; (?<=from\=<)....@.+(?=>) But it has a side effect of going to the last > on the line, not the closing half of the pair <>. To knock out the complications I drop to a simple pattern without the look ahead/behind; <....@.+> again it matches all the way to the end of the line, not just the opening < and closing > as intended. Now, a little research and I come up with 'greedy -v- non greedy' matching and thought I was on to something. But I can get that to play ball either; <....@.+(.*?)> But No dice. After 8 hours on this I'm starting to kick myself blue. Can anyone put me out of my misery? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
