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in reply to Expressing myself

I just realized I don't know if < needs to be escaped in patterns. I have this nagging feeling it should be, but I can't find anything in perlre.

Hm, this seems to work ok:

if (m/<(.*?)>/) { my $email = $1; if ($email =~ /@.*\./) { # ok, do something with it. } }

I first find stuff in < > (don't do it this way if you're parsing html, you'll match all the tags). Then I have a look inside, to see if there's a @ and a dot. I am wary of more elaborate checking for e-mail adresses - you always end up discarding some valid adresses.

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Brigitte    'I never met a chocolate I didnt like'    Jellinek
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