RegExp for matching word "[email protected]" or word "[email protected]" ?

[Gerd Pohlmann]

Just a stupid question from a newbie:
How do I setup a reg exp which matches if the text (line) contains
either the full word "(e-mail address removed)" or the full word "(e-mail address removed)" (without quotes)?

([email protected]|[email protected])

does not work.

Gerd

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Just a stupid question from a newbie:
How do I setup a reg exp which matches if the text (line) contains
either the full word "(e-mail address removed)" or the full word
"(e-mail address removed)" (without quotes)?

([email protected]|[email protected])

does not work.

Does not work?

Please post a small but complete program, where you have included "use
strict;" and "use warnings;" at the top, and that illustrates your
problem. Let us know which error or warning messages you get (if any),
and try to avoid just saying "does not work".

 

[Tad McClellan]

([email protected]|[email protected])

does not work.

Of course not, it is not Perl code.

Did you mean to ask a question about Perl code?

If so, then show us the Perl code that your question is about...

 

[Robert Meyer]

Am Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:47:49 +0100 schrieb Gerd Pohlmann:

Just a stupid question from a newbie:
How do I setup a reg exp which matches if the text (line) contains
either the full word "(e-mail address removed)" or the full word "(e-mail address removed)" (without quotes)?

([email protected]|[email protected])

does not work.

Gerd

Hi Gerd,

you have to mask the @ and the . with a \

So it looks like this
(karl\@aol\.com|paul\@hotmail\.com)

If you want to use it in a Perl Program then you must includ it into two /
like this
(/karl\@aol\.com/|/paul\@hotmail\.com/)

If you want to learn more about Regexp then use ISBN 3-89721-349-4 from
O'Reilly.

greets
Robert

 

[J Krugman]

(/karl\@aol\.com/|/paul\@hotmail\.com/)

That looks like a bitwise OR of two scalars... I suppose it would
work, but it's not terribly good Perl. How about

/karl\@aol\.com|paul\@hotmail\.com/

?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

That looks like a bitwise OR of two scalars... I suppose it would
work, but it's not terribly good Perl. How about

/karl\@aol\.com|paul\@hotmail\.com/

?

Yeah, but since the email addresses are plain strings, it would
probably be even better Perl to make use of the index() function
instead of a regular expression.