email extraction in emacs

email extraction in emacs

[a]

email extraction in emacs

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?

ashish

ashish4@yahoo.com

Re: email extraction in emacs

[Leo]

On Wednesday, 29 Nov 2006, a. wrote:

> email extraction in emacs
>
> 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?
>
> ashish
>
> ashish4@yahoo.com

(info "(elisp)Regular Expressions")

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Re: email extraction in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.11.2006 um 17:53 schrieb a:

> 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?

Shell-command-on-region or replace-regxp or delete-region or ...

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Re: email extraction in emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

"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).

Re: email extraction in emacs

[martin]

 >>>>> a  <ashish4112001@gmail.com> writes:
 > Date: 29 Nov 2006 08:53:57 -0800
 > 
 > email extraction in emacs
 > 
 > 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?

Hi,

i would try to use somthing like

  bbdb/gnus-show-all-recipients
    Command: Show all recipients of this message. Counterpart to
             `bbdb/vm-show-sender'.

  bbdb/vm-show-all-recipients
    Command: Show all recipients of this message. Counterpart to
             `bbdb/vm-show-sender'.

Martin
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Re: email extraction in emacs

[B. T. Raven]

"Mathias Dahl" <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u64cxccle.fsf@gmail.com...
> "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).

This sort of works interactively, that is it finds most of them. Blah is
missing a final parenthesis and I don't understand if addresses with 2 d's
is outside the scope of the let or not. Anyway, it just returns a list of
nils even if some email addresses are below the point of invocation in
*scratch.

\b[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]\{2,4\}\b

Maybe all of the backslashes have to be doubled.

Re: email extraction in emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com> writes:

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

> This sort of works interactively, that is it finds most of them. Blah is
> missing a final parenthesis and I don't understand if addresses with 2 d's
> is outside the scope of the let or not. Anyway, it just returns a list of
> nils even if some email addresses are below the point of invocation in
> *scratch.

Yes, there were typos in the code. There should be only one variable,
`addresses'.

> \b[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]\{2,4\}\b
>
> Maybe all of the backslashes have to be doubled.

If they are in a string, yes.