Question

I am using http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ to text regex pattern.

Am trying to use this regex pattern to get various parts of email address and the text preceding it.

(.{1,20})([\w-\.]+)@((?:[\w]+\.)+)([a-zA-Z]{2,4})

If you move mouse over the blue highlighted text then you’ll see that there is a problem with group1 and group2..

Please use this text as as an example.

Zak - [e-mail] (use first). Cell 

ssadsada, [e-mail], and cc: [e-mail].  Include a
specific time for the following:

Answer 1

This is what you want: Regex Example

(([\w]*[\s-\.]?[\S\s]){1,2})\s([\w-\.]+)@((?:[\w]+\.)+)([a-zA-Z]{2,4})

Group1: Zak -
Group2: asdasdsad
Group3: gmail.
Group4: com