[Gllug] strip invalid email addresses

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Dec 10 20:17:15 UTC 2007


On Friday, 7 Dec 2007, Joel Bernstein wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:21:46PM +0000, countd wrote:
>>I have a plain text list of email addresses. Can anyone help me with a
>>one liner (sed?) to strip out the invalid ones? I can see for example
>>that there are telephone numbers in there, and lines with no @ sign
>>which I'd like to get rid of.
>The Perl module Regexp::Common [1] doesn't make any attempt to provide a
>matcher for email addresses, for good reason.

But Mail::RFC822::Address does, and is the right tool for the job.

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