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I want to know if by using regular expressions I am able to extract emails from the following strings?

The following RE pattern is .*@.*match with all strings. It has worked fine with some of the string, though with not all.

I want to match all strings match with email pattern include all domain like (some-url.com) or (some-url.co.id)

boleh di kirim ke email saya ekoprasetyo.crb@outlook.com tks...
boleh minta kirim ke db.maulana@gmail.com. 
dee.wien@yahoo.com. .
deninainggolan@yahoo.co.id Senior Quantity Surveyor
Fajar.rohita@hotmail.com, terimakasih bu Cindy Hartanto
firmansyah1404@gmail.com saya mau dong bu cindy
fransiscajw@gmail.com 
Hi Cindy ...pls share the Salary guide to donny_tri_wardono@yahoo.co.id thank a
Ambrish Pathak
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    You should just lookup a good email regex and then apply it to your text, e.g. here: http://emailregex.com/ – Tim Biegeleisen Feb 23 '17 at 05:32
  • @TimBiegeleisen is right. This is probably the most common usage for regex. There are some amazingly complex patterns or fairly simplistic ones. A quick google would have given you your fastest answer. – Regular Jo Feb 23 '17 at 06:27
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    All the patterns shared so far on this page are grossly simplistic and would pass a lot of invalid email addresses and fail some good ones. – Regular Jo Feb 23 '17 at 06:29

7 Answers7

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You can create a function with regex /([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/ to extract email ids from long text

function extractEmails (text) {
  return text.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/gi);
}

Script in action: Run to see result

var text = `boleh di kirim ke email saya ekoprasetyo.crb@outlook.com tks... boleh minta kirim ke db.maulana@gmail.com. dee.wien@yahoo.com. . 
deninainggolan@yahoo.co.id Senior Quantity Surveyor
Fajar.rohita@hotmail.com, terimakasih bu Cindy Hartanto
firmansyah1404@gmail.com saya mau dong bu cindy
fransiscajw@gmail.com 
Hi Cindy ...pls share the Salary guide to donny_tri_wardono@yahoo.co.id thank a`; 

function extractEmails ( text ){
    return text.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/gi);
    }
     
    $("#emails").text(extractEmails(text));
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p id="emails"></p>

-----Update-----

While the regex in the above code snippet matches most email patterns, but if you still need to match >99% of the email patterns, including the edge cases (like '+' in the email) then use the regex pattern as shown below

Script in action: Run to see result 

var text = `boleh di kirim ke email saya ekoprasetyo.crb@outlook.com tks... boleh minta kirim ke db.mau+lana@gmail.com. dee.wi+en@yahoo.com. . 
deninainggolan@yahoo.co.id Senior Quantity Surveyor
Fajar.rohita@hotmail.com, terimakasih bu Cindy Hartanto
firmansyah1404@gmail.com saya mau dong bu cindy
fransiscajw@gmail.com 
Hi Cindy ...pls share the Salary guide to donny_tri_wardono@yahoo.co.id thank a`; 

function extractEmails ( text ){
    return text.match(/(?:[a-z0-9+!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])/gi);
    }
     
    $("#emails").text(extractEmails(text));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p id="emails"></p>
Ambrish Pathak
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    Well, actually the regex in the answer captures also `my_email@...com` to avoid this, modify the regexp as follows: `([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)` – Michal Bida May 03 '19 at 09:29
  • @ambrish, Can you expand this code to also include this case : "dprice@msn.com;dprice@msn.com,'tmccarth@sbcglobal.net.'" The issue with the above code is that the beginning **'** is also included in the `'tmccarth@sbcglobal.net.'` email address , so the result is like this : `"dprice@msn.com", "dprice@msn.com", "'tmccarth@sbcglobal.net"]` how can that be removed so that i get the result in this format `"dprice@msn.com", "dprice@msn.com", "tmccarth@sbcglobal.net"]` – Samtech Aug 31 '20 at 11:21
  • @SS_flair you can clean up the extracted email id via any replace method available – Ambrish Pathak Sep 01 '20 at 10:19
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    Just to learn : why do you need the A-Z part if you use the i (case insensitive) flag ? – hugsbrugs Jan 20 '21 at 18:11
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    Note that this regex does not seem to accept `+` as a valid character. See Sanjeev Siva's answer for a slight tweak: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54340560/1196465 – David Gay Apr 16 '21 at 19:50
  • Thanks for highlighting, '+' is now included in the regex. – Ambrish Pathak May 30 '21 at 14:27
  • But this wrong template. The template search for 1Fool@iana.org but it should not – Sergio Jan 31 '23 at 21:48
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I would like to add to @Ambrish Pathak's answer,

According to wikipedia, an email address can also accept + sign

([a-zA-Z0-9+._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)

will work like a charm

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    They definitely can. gmail even supports adding: yourmail+something@gmail.com into your mail. I use it all the time when i have to create multiple users (with unique emails) and receive all mails in the same account – Rasmus Puls Sep 16 '20 at 08:11
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[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+ worked for me, you can check the result on this regex101 saved regex.

It's really just twice the same pattern separated by an @ sign.

The pattern is 1 or more occurences of:

  • a-z: any lowercase letter
  • A-Z: any uppercase letter
  • 0-9: any digit
  • -_.: a hyphen, an underscore or a dot

If it missed some emails, add any missing character to it and it should do the trick.

Edit

I didn't notice it first, but when going to the regex101 link, there's an Explanation section at the top-right corner of the screen explaining what the regular expression matches.

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  • While the most complex regular expression isn't necessary for most cases of email verification, this one is overly simplistic to a fault. For instance, it matches `user@.` or `.@_`. – Regular Jo Feb 23 '17 at 06:25
  • what can I say, it matches all the email addresses in the sample provided by the OP. if they provide a more complete sample, I'll be happy to adapt if needed. – Mickaël Derriey Feb 23 '17 at 06:39
  • I can appreciate that but the problem is that when it matches a test, people just expect it to match everything. The fault is on the OP for not doing a simple google search, which would probably have returned popular results from this site. – Regular Jo Feb 23 '17 at 06:47
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    Hi, thanks for sharing ! I've updated your demo to define that email have to be ended by letters only :) `[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+[a-zA-Z]` – Delphine Aug 10 '17 at 11:35
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    `+` signs are valid in email address before the `@`. this doesn't cover that. – user2924019 Oct 10 '18 at 13:36
  • @MickaëlDerriey I was trying to use your link. It highlighted all e-mails, in the Test string section. Is there a way to extract in the response section at the end the list of e-mails for example? I guess we need to specify the substitution string in order to do it. I was trying to use: `\0` but it selects additional information – David Leal Aug 29 '19 at 13:22
  • This doen't work for `test_#23@test.com`. It's not a valid email but your regex finds `23@test.com` which is not valid – Sky Oct 04 '19 at 14:10
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You can use the following regex to capture all the email addresses.

(?<name>[\w.]+)\@(?<domain>\w+\.\w+)(\.\w+)?

see demo / explanation

additionally if you want, you can capture only those emails that contains a specific domain name (ie. some-url.com) and to achieve that you just need to replace the \w+\.\w+ part after <domain> with your desired domain name. so, it would be like (?<name>[\w.]+)\@(?<domain>outlook.com)(\.\w+)?

see demo / explanation

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\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}+\.[A-Z]{2,}
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Using Python from my side work very well. try with yourself.

[a-z]+@[a-z]+.[a-z]+
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\W([\w\-\.]+@[\w\-\.]+)+\W

will find all emails in the string

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