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Remove everything except characters between '<' & '>,' in Vim -- extract email addresses from Gmail "To" field

I have a comma-delimited list of email addresses with each actual address prepended by the contact's name (from Gmail). Here's an example:

Fred Flintstone <[email protected]>, Wilma Flintstone <[email protected]>, Barney Rubble <[email protected]>, Bamm-Bamm Rubble <[email protected]>,

converts to:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],

Background info: I am trying to paste the list of contacts into a webex invite, which can only accept email addresses.

Remove everything except regex match in Vim is related, but all the email addresses are on one line in this case.

Solution

  • Have you tried?

    :s/.\{-}\%(\(,\s*\)\|<\(.\{-}\)>\)/\1\2/g

    The following will also work:

    :s/.*/\=join(map(split(submatch(0), ','), "matchstr(v:val, '<\\zs.*\\ze>')"), ', ')