RE: FN-FORUM: Extracting emails

date posted 5th January 2005 18:19


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Watt [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> I have a client who has sent me an MDB file from their
> business management system so I can add email addresses to
> their electronic newsletter. I've managed to extract the data
> so I have a list of emails, unfortunately, its all mixed in
> with other data. Does anyone have a quick script or program
> that will strip out the rubbish and leave me with a nice
> clean list of addresses. I've been looking online, but all I
> get is spamming tools that cost way too much for a one-off job.
>

If the data is halfway structured it is usually fairly trivial to write
a perl script with regex to pull out what you need.

Dai

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