Re: regex help

["Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David

Try something like: "\@(.*?)\."

The question mark should tell it to get the smallest possible match. By
default regexes are greedy (at least that's my understanfind)

Regards
Evan Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Sunday, 27 April 2008 2:25 a.m.
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] regex help

Attn all regular expression gurus!

I need a regular expression that will match any text between an @ and 
the next period ".".

Example text: Don't ask david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  He's lousy at regex.

Currently I'm using "\@(.*)\.", but that's matching "@midrange.com."

I want to a regex that will match "@midrange."

This is for a filter I'm trying to implement on the list archives to 
hide email addresses.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

david