I cannot for the life of me figure out how to parse an Email Address out of a string using a RegEx.

I dont think I can use the Email::Address module, as it did not come with the perl version we were told to download, else this would be quite simple.

Parsing an email address is a tricky thing to achieve, no matter what language you're using. Try some popular regex sites like http://www.regular-expressions.info/, and some regex tester to check. The big problem is there are just too many formats of email to validate, so you'll want to tunnel it to be close to your scenario of email addresses.

thanks

I ended up using /.+[\@].+[\.].+/

i know its not the prettiest of regex, but it got the job done