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dwaynek
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: extract an email address from a web page |
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how would i find and then extract an email address from a web page
Last edited by dwaynek on Tue May 15, 2007 4:17 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Helpy
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| With regular expressions. I believe this has been shown already in this forum. |
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Titan
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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e.g.
| Code: | RegExMatch(text, "\b[\w\.]+@(?:\w+\.)*\w+", email)
MsgBox, %email% |
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Titan wrote: | e.g.
| Code: | RegExMatch(text, "\b[\w\.]+@(?:\w+\.)*\w+", email)
MsgBox, %email% |
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i tried this Titan but i got 2 weird results.
if i tried on a webpage which had graphics, the result was null.
if i tried this on text only, it resulted in an error msg saying the variable had an illegal character. |
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engunneer
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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you can't extract an email address from an image.
what error message did you get? (hint: hit Ctrl C on the error message window, and you can paste in the forum, using [quote](paste here)[/quote], or [code] [/code])
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: |
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figured it out.
this was my script:
| Code: | #f4::
Send, ^c
RegExMatch(%clipboard%, "\b[\w\.]+@(?:\w+\.)*\w+", email)
MsgBox, %email%
return |
it didn't report an error on reload, but on execution.
apparently i should have used clipboard instead of %clipboard%
now it works fine.
thanks y'all! |
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darchon
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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i'm back.
well it seems that
\b[\w\.]+@(?:\w+\.)*\w+
is not enough to extract the email address i need. the email address i want to capture is in the format:
hous-326882907@craigslist.org
and for some reason, i only get: 326882907@craigslist.org
i tried: \b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b
but that got nothing. |
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| sorry, that last msg (darchon) above is from me |
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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ok i think i found a regex that works:
[\w-_.]+@(?:\w+(?::\d+)?\.){1,3}(?:\w+\.?){1,2} |
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Grumpy
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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That's the problem with e-mail addresses: many legal formats are often overlooked by simplistic regular expressions...
Somebody made a RE taking in account all possible formats, and the RE was 5000 chars long...
For example, "John Smith"@[151.45.44.1] is legal, I think. |
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