How to extract an email-address from a text file

[Jerry]

Hi people:

Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
email-address form a text file ?

Any help greatly appreciated!
Jerry

[James Smith]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

Jerry wrote:
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>Hi people:
>
>Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
>email-address form a text file ?
>
>Any help greatly appreciated!
>Jerry
>
>[/color]
Are you a Spammer?

[eclipsboi]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:20:25 +1000, James Smith
<jncsmith@optus net.com.au> wrote:
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>Jerry wrote:
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>>Hi people:
>>
>>Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
>>email-address form a text file ?
>>
>>Any help greatly appreciated!
>>Jerry
>>
>>[/color]
>Are you a Spammer?[/color]
If he was, do you think he'd admit to it?

[Ian.H]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:31:10 +0000, eclipsboi wrote:
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> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:20:25 +1000, James Smith
> <jncsmith@optus net.com.au> wrote:
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>>Jerry wrote:
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>>>Hi people:
>>>
>>>Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
>>>email-address form a text file ?
>>>
>>>Any help greatly appreciated!
>>>Jerry
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>Are you a Spammer?[/color]
> If he was, do you think he'd admit to it?[/color]


Rule #1: Spammers Lie
Rule #2: If spammer appears to be telling the trust, see #1
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid


Of course he's not a spammer, he's a "direct e-mail marketer"
hahaha =)



Regards,

Ian


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[Gary L. Burnore]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:03:30 +0200, Jerry <submitstuff@ly cos.com>
wrote:
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>Hi people:
>
>Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
>email-address form a text file ?[/color]


Get a pen and a piece of paper. Read the text file. Read and weite
down the email address.


BTW, did you ear a Korean firm just bought Lycos? Hahahahahahaha.
They've got YOUR number.

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

Jerry <submitstuff@ly cos.com> wrote in message
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> Can somebody show me a quick code snippet to reliably extract an
> email-address form a text file ?[/color]

Here's a lazy (as in "too lazy to learn regular expressions") one:

function get_addresses($ file) {
$breaking = array(' ', ',', '>', '<', "\t", "\r", "\n");
$addr = array();
$data = explode('@', file_get_conten ts($file));
// Alternative for PHP < 4.3.0:
// $data = explode('@', implode('', file($file)));
$n = count($data);
for ($i = 1; $i < $n; $i++) {
$addr[$i-1] = '@';
$begin = 0;
$end = strlen($data[$i-1]) - 1;
while ((!in_array($da ta[$i-1]{$end}, $breaking)) and ($begin <= $end)) {
$addr[$i-1] = $data[$i-1]{$end} . $addr[$i-1];
$end--;
}
$begin = 0;
$end = strlen($data[$i]) - 1;
while ((!in_array($da ta[$i]{$begin}, $breaking)) and ($begin <= $end)) {
$addr[$i-1] .= $data[$i]{$begin} ;
$begin++;
}
}
if (count($addr) == 0) {
return FALSE;
} else {
return $addr;
}
}

This function returns an array including all e-mail addresses found
in the $file or FALSE if no address is found.

Cheers,
NC

[eclipsboi]

Re: How to extract an email-address from a text file

On 3 Aug 2004 15:09:06 -0700, nc@iname.com (Nikolai Chuvakhin) wrote:
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>This function returns an array including all e-mail addresses found
>in the $file or FALSE if no address is found.
>
>Cheers,
>NC[/color]

You do realize you probably just doubled the junk mail in all of our
mailboxes now, right? ;)