I have given that a try and it doesn't work all that great. It seems to be more suited for the To or CC fields and not the from.
> -----Original Message----- > From: simran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:12 PM > To: Christopher Lyon > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is there a better way to? > > the cpan module: > > http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Email-Find-0.09/lib/Email/Find.pm > > might come in handy... > > > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:59, Christopher Lyon wrote: > > I have a line of text that I want to pull an e-mail address out from. Is > > this the best way to pull that information from that line? > > > > <snip> > > $user = 'From: "First Last Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'; > > > > @addy = split(/</, $user, 2); > > chop $addy[1]; > > </snip> > > > > > > Also, how do you handle if the email is in brackets like so? > > > > $user = 'From: "First Last Name" [EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
