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Ruby Trick To Extract an Email From a String Using Regex
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string.rb
# The goal of this code snippet isn't to make an email validator..
# So the REGEX is not steady but works for simple cases.
#
# You can extract whatever you want by changing the Regex. :)
line = "Congratulation ! here is your email : mehdi-farsi@long-and_boring-company_name.com. Are you happy ?"
email = line[/(\w|[\.\-])+@(\w|[\.\-])+\.[a-zA-Z]+/]
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