Question

Im trying to search through a text file and find the valid email addresses. Im doing something like this:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $infile = 'emails.txt';

    open IN, "< $infile" or die "Can't open $infile : $!";

    while( <IN> )
    { 
        if ($infile =~ /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,6}$/) 
        { 
            print "Valid \n"; 
        } 
    }

    close IN;

But it doesnt do anything, any help?

Answer 1

You match the email address regexp against the name of the file. And anyway you should not use regex to validate email address – use Email::Valid

use strict;

use Email::Valid;

my $infile = 'emails.txt';

open my $in, "< $infile" or die "Can't open $infile : $!";

while(my $line = <$in> ) {

    chomp $line;

    if (Email::Valid->address($line)) {

        print "Valid \n";

    }


}

close $in;