I am trying to extract just the emails from text column in openrefine. some cells have just the email, but others have the name and email in john doe <[email protected]> format. I have been using the following GREL/regex but it does not return the entire email address. For the above exaple I'm getting ["[email protected]"]
value.match(
/.*([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\+]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+).*/
)
Any help is much appreciated.
The n is captured because you are using .* before the capturing group, and since it can match any 0+ chars other than line break chars greedily the only char that can land in Group 1 during backtracking is the char right before @.
If you can get partial matches git rid of the .* and use
/[^<\s]+@[^\s>]+/
See the regex demo
Details
[^<\s]+ - 1 or more chars other than < and whitespace@ - a @ char[^\s>]+ - 1 or more chars other than whitespace and >.Python/Jython implementation:
import re
res = ''
m = re.search(r'[^<\s]+@[^\s>]+', value)
if m:
res = m.group(0)
return res
There are other ways to match these strings. In case you need a full string match .*<([^<]+@[^>]+)>.* where .* will not gobble the name since it will stop before an obligatory <.