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Separate email addresses with regular expression.

Hi,
I have written a regular expression to capture an email address from a specific zone on a page using a software application.
The application will then send a copy of the document to that email address.
I have come across two problems. First is that email addresses can contain numeric values as well as text. Problem solved by adding 0-9 in the regex.
Second issue is that some of the documents have more than one email address separated by / (forward slash).
Is there an easy way to find the / and stop returning any further email addresses?
The first address will always be the one I need.
Thanks in advance,
Chris.

HainKurt

just use this before regex

var email='abc@domain1.com / xyz@domain2.com';
var firstemail = email.split(" / ")[0]
alert(">" + firstemail +"<");

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demo

https://jsfiddle.net/538oyfco/

Chris Lane

ASKER

That looks like it will do the trick. Thanks for the advice. Is there a simpler way to do it using the same regular expression?
I'm using regex buddy and it doesn't like the "/" at all!

HainKurt

use "\/"

Chris Lane

ASKER

I will try that now.
Thanks for your help.
Chris.

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Leonidas Dosas

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Chris Lane

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Thanks, Leonidas.
I will try that tomorrow on my VM and let you know if it works in my application.
Regards,
Chris.