Just fiddling with regex's because I see them in the digests everyday, and
I though the best way to learn these is to try them.
Currently sliding backwards down the learning curve...
Just want to parse an email header containing addresses in format:
>> Joe Frderick Blogss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
(repeated hundreds of times...)
and I want to write a script that will give me an output of
Name, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I probably don't need regexes to do this but I thought I'd try and see what
I learn
So I'm suing the s/// function to first match the email address with the
following regex (snaffled of a website somewhere):
^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*$
So this will match the email part, but I want it to find '<email>' and
return 'email'.
How does the stupid s/// function work !!! The perldoc pages keep using a
$& to refer to and manipulate the input string but I don't know how to
delete within the string , i.e. the <> characters.
Is this so hard because I'm trying to row with a fork or what ?
Michael Carmody
MDU, Public Health Lab
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
The University of Melbourne, Parkville
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