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Hai Le Quang
Hai Le Quang

Reputation: 19

Python email regex doesn't work

I am trying to get all email address from a text file using regular expression and Python but it always returns NoneType while it suppose to return the email. For example:

content = 'My email is [email protected]'
#Compare with suitable regex
emailRegex = re.compile(r'(^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$)')
mo = emailRegex.search(content)
print(mo.group())

I suspect the problem lies in the regex but could not figure out why.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 196

Answers (3)

Aziz Alfoudari
Aziz Alfoudari

Reputation: 5263

Because of spaces in content; remove the ^ and $ to match anywhere:

([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+)

Upvotes: 2

niallhaslam
niallhaslam

Reputation: 282

Your regular expression doesn't match the pattern.

I normally call the regex search like this:

mo = re.search(regex, searchstring)

So in your case I would try 

content = 'My email is [email protected]'
#Compare with suitable regex
emailRegex = re.compile(r'gmail')
mo = re.search(emailRegex, content)
print(mo.group())`

You can test your regex here: https://regex101.com/ This will work:

([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$)

Upvotes: 0

Humoyun Ahmad
Humoyun Ahmad

Reputation: 3081

Try this one as a regex, but I am completely not sure whether it will work for you:

([^@|\s]+@[^@]+.[^@|\s]+)

Upvotes: 0

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