Regex and Email

So I need to create code that will read an emil and compare lines against regex and if the lines match then parse them into a variable. I think I have the regex part down. The only problem is I cannot figure out how to read the email.

Can someone help?

hmm
one way of doing it is....

VB Code:

Dim Regex As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("^(([A-Za-z0-9]+_+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\-+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\.+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\++))*[A-Za-z0-9]+@((\w+\-+)|(\w+\.))*\w{1,63}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$")
If Not Regex.IsMatch(StringOfEmail) Then
 Me.message.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red
 Me.message.Text = "There is a problem with recipient: " & StringOfEmail
 ' bad email address
else 
 ' good email address
End If

you may also want to take a quick peek at The Regular Expression Library Website

But how do I get the email into strings to compare against the regex?

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Originally Posted by safewithyou247

But how do I get the email into strings to compare against the regex?

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that would depend greatly on your UI... how are you taking input of the email addresses? does the user provide them.. or do you have a list to check? a database?

where are the email addresses being provided from.

For the time being the email is just on the local computer that I am running the code. Eventually it will be in a database which I will implement in due time. So I have the file saved locally in .msg format.

ahh I see, so you're trying to actually read a saved email message saved locally on your system... then parse data from it?

thats it.