Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Extracting emails

date posted 5th January 2005 18:33

>> -----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.
>>

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

DW> Dai

DW> TechnologyAngel
DW> http://www.technologyangel.co.uk/

Yeah, I'm just lazy (also the data isnt decently structured at all -
the client has been putting emails into the 'notes' field together
with other misc data.

-- Richard
http://www.rwatt.co.uk