Once you've broken the list into individual elements, I'd use something like:
email = rereplace(element, '.*<(.*?)>', '\1') This replaces everything before the open bracket, the open bracket, and the end bracket with just what is in between the brackets. --Ben Doom Nate Willard wrote: > Morning, > > I'm currently working to add an address book importer > (PLAXO) to a site. The address book importer returns > the emails in the input box as follows: "FNAME LNAME" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "FNAME LNAME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "FNAME LNAME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > I'd like to come up with a way to take that input and > CFMAIL out to the user's inputted addresses. Problem > is, isValid(email) will reject everything above. > > I think what needs to happen is I need to delete > everything between the brackets including the > brackets, and then take just what is between the > quotes, leaving [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Which I can then cfloop through a cftry and mail > out... > > Would that work? Can anyone suggest a better way to > handle this situation. If that would work how would I > go about doing that? > > Thanks, > N > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4