thx Sheppy, good enough for me. i am a beginner in perl.
________________________________ From: Sheppy R <bobross...@gmail.com> To: Rob Coops <rco...@gmail.com> Cc: Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com>; perl list <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:54 AM Subject: Re: extracting email addresses from a file Couldn't you just use the non-whitespace character to capture everything before and after the @ symbol? s/^.*\s(\S+@\S+)\s.*$/$1/
