I bet kbob could come up with a little perl string that would be perfect ... something like perl -e / [bunch of groovy stuff]
I was thinkging of doing something like this to extract the memail one liner mine has a nice "¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø The Famous Joke of the Day One Liner!" identifier... I just want the lines after the below quote(above) then I want those lines put in a file (might need a line with -- after the one liner) I can then take that file, and make a fortune database with it! NOTE: kbob isnt the only perl god around... jake, cory, others are pretty good with the regex/perl goodies... but I like kbobs style... he always comes up with one a little better than that others :) Jamie On Thursday 19 September 2002 05:43 am, Peter Bailey wrote: : As in, on the To: line or in the body? : : There are many email like addresses in the header, so you'd need : to pick the lines you want checked. It's pretty easy to make a regex that : would pick out email addresses. Also depends on if you want the form with : <> brackets around it and include a full name. That's a bit more tricky, : but if you're only looking on the from, to, and cc lines, then they are : all comma delimited. The body, obviously, is not. : : I assume you're either making an automatic addressbook based on : mail you've sent or received. If that's the case, then the from, to, and : cc lines are all that really matter. : : I'm not in the mood to go through that regex that was included, : but a quick test didn't give me the results I was looking for. You can : make a very crude script like so: : : get_email_addresses_from_stream.sh: : #!bash : tr '<>(),:' '\n\n\n\n\n\n' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep .@.*\..*[A-z]\$ | sort -u : EOF : : That should produce a list of email addresses (or things that match the : grep) from whatever is piped to it. So if you fiddle procmail you can : make it pipe mails coming in and dump the to a file. : : If you want it to be more useful, you shouldn't grep the headers : except for the to, from, and cc lines. Easy enough to do with a grep at : the beginning of the line. Also, the email address grep could easily be : improved or, I'm sure there's a better one to use. Like the one in the : other email will probably work somehow. But I was just imagining the most : broad sense of a valid email address would take the form of: : : [at least one character]@[at least one char].[two or three char] : : As that would satisfy all the .com, .net, .cc, .se, .tw. You : could make it much more strict, but it all depends on what you're doing : with it. : : On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mike O wrote: : > Okay, no wisecracks or stupid jokes on that one though : > I'm sure somebody won't be able to help themselves. : > : > Here's what I'm looking for. Anybody know of a program : > that'll go through all the headers in an email and : > output all of the email addresses in it to a file or : > address book? : > : > __________________________________________________ : > Do you Yahoo!? : > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! : > http://sbc.yahoo.com : > _______________________________________________ : > Eug-lug mailing list : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug : : _______________________________________________ : Eug-lug mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- Microsoft is not the answer, Microsoft is the question, the answer is NO! Eug-lug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug No microsoft products were used to produce this message. _______________________________________________ Eug-lug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
