Use javascript to find email address in a string

Question

What I am trying to do is to extract email address out of the string SomeName, First ([email protected])

Here is the code that I already tried:

 var stringToSearchIn="SomeName, First ([email protected])";


 var re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;

var extractedEmail=re.exec(stringToSearchIn);

The variable extractedEmail in the code returns a null.

Answer 1

I tried this and failed

...is not a very useful description of what happenned. At a guess, the re failed to find a match. An obvious cause for this is the regex you've used here will only match a string which ONLY contains an email address - remove the end anchors (^,$) from the regex and you'll get your email address.

var re = /(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))/;