Finding Email Address and Phone Numbers in Text

[Mike Whitaker]

The slightly cynical answer is 'find out what Apple's Mail.app does and steal it" :D :D

On 7 Jan 2011, at 10:29, Dave Cross wrote:

> 
> What's the state of the art in detecting email address and phone numbers
> in text? Unfortunately, the Regexp::Common docs say:
> 
> Future releases of the module will also provide patterns for the
> following:
> 
>      * email addresses
>      * HTML/XML tags
>      * more numerical matchers,
>      * mail headers (including multiline ones),
>      * more URLS
>      * telephone numbers of various countries
> 
> Email::Find looks nice. Is there something similar for phone numbers
> anywhere?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave...
> 
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