Regex Find Only First Email Address

[SmileyBot 13]

Hey guys

 

regex always does my head in, can someone please help

 

I want to scrape whois data from: whois.ausregistry.com.au/whois/whois_local.jsp

 

I want to regex find only the first email address occurrence

 

this regex works in Regex builder but not in the bot: ^[^.!?]*[\w\-][\w\-\.]+@[\w\-][\w\-\.]+[a-zA-Z]{1,4}

 

I also want to match the second email address occurrence but I have not got past the first..lol

 

Thanks

set(#rmail,$find regular expression($scrape attribute(<tagname="html">,"innerhtml"),"^[^.!?]*[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+@[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+[a-zA-Z]\{1,4\}"),"Global")

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Do it like this

 

set(#firstEmail,$list item($find regular expression($document text,"^[^.!?]*[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+@[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+[a-zA-Z]\{1,4\}"),0),"Global")
 

[SmileyBot 13]

wow...i never thought of doing it like that, thanks mate, but it doesn't seem to work

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Just change the $document test to the text you want to get match the regex.

[SmileyBot 13]

Thanks for the help, i got the result i wanted

 

but It seems like the incorrect way of doing things, but either way i got a result

 

I'm not even going to try and regex the second email address

 

SOLVED

 

I first set a regex to find and scrape the page to get both emails from the page

set(#rmail,$find regular expression($scrape attribute(<tagname="html">,"innerhtml"),"[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+@[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+[a-zA-Z]\{1,4\}"),"Global")

I then set a regex to find and scrape just the first result from the first set's results

set(#firstEmail,$list item($find regular expression(#rmail,"^[^.!?]*([\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+@[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+[a-zA-Z]\{1,4\})"),0),"Global")

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Yeah. it depends on how you scrape the target text to match.

[vinnyuk 1]

Do it like this

 

set(#firstEmail,$list item($find regular expression($document text,"^[^.!?]*[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+@[\\w\\-][\\w\\-\\.]+[a-zA-Z]\{1,4\}"),0),"Global")

 

 

This is very smart, It has helped me out also with another piece of regex where I only wanted the first instance