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"a" <ashish4112001@gmail.com> writes:

> if i have a text file filled with email addresses but other things
> as well what commands can i use to extract the email address from
> the file?

You would probably need `search-forward-regexp' and
`match-string'. The code below will not work but it will give you an
idea on how to do it:

(defun blah ()
 (let (adresses)
  (while (search-forward-regexp "\\(REGEXP-MATCHING-EMAILS\\)" nil t)
   (setq addresses (append adresses (list (match-string 1)))))
  adresses)

Matching e-mail addresses using a regexp can be tricky, if you want to
support all variants (with `+' before the @ and such).