Python - Extracting Email Addresses Using Regular Expressions

As a python developers, we have to accomplished a lot of jobs such as data cleansing from a file before processing the other business operations. 

For an example, you have a raw data text file and you have to read some specific data like email addresses by  to performing the actual Regular Expression matching.

What is a Regular Expression and which module is used in Python?

Regular expression is a sequence of special character(s) mainly used to find and replace patterns in a string or file, using a specialized syntax held in a pattern. 

The Python module re provides full support for Perl-like regular expressions in Python. The re module raises the exception re.error if an error occurs while compiling or using a regular expression.

Example -

# Python program to extract emails from the String By Regular Expression.    # Importing module required for regular # expressions import re     # Example string  txt = "Ryan has sent an invoice email to john.d@yahoo.com by using his email id ryan.arjun@gmail.com and he also shared a copy to his boss rosy.gray@amazon.co.uk on the cc part."    # \w matches any non-whitespace character # @ for as in the Email # + for Repeats a character one or more times findEmail = re.findall(r'[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+', txt)   # Printing findEmail of List print(findEmail)

Output - 

['john1.d@yahoo.com', 'ryan.arjun@gmail.com', 'rosy.gray@amazon.co.uk']

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