Re^2: How to extract an email address from a mailto URL?

[jdlev]

My experience in perl is going on about 3 weeks...so some of what you are saying is greek to me. Can you provide an example of how you would do it? The source file to pull the information from has the tag as follows:

showTollfree(1010)
// -->
'/script'
Fax:  [phone] 
'br''a
href='mailto:[e-mail]'>[e-mail]'/a'

'/td'

I'm sorry to have to be wet nursed through this...but I have learned a ton of stuff over the last few weeks...I feel like my brain is going to explode!

[linuxer]

Well, first install these two modules (and their unresolved dependencies if there are any):

• Regexp::Common
• Regexp::Common::Email::Address

Then you can do something like this (Quickshot, untested):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Regexp::Common qw(Email::Address);
use Email::Address;

my $filename = 'file_to_parse.dat';

open my $rh, '<', $filename or die "$filename: $!";

# Requirement: href=, mailto: and the mailaddress must be in the same 
+line!

my @addresses = 
  map { m/mailto:($RE{Email}{Address})/o; $1 } 
  grep { m/href=.+?mailto:/ } 
  <$rh>
;

close $rh;

{
  local $, = local $\ = "\n";
  print @addresses;
}

__END__

[jdlev]

Thanks, works great!