At 02:46 AM 3/15/01 +0900, you wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:20:14AM +0900, David Fung wrote:
> > i would like to locate probable email addresses in a bunch of text files,
> > but don't know how to build a regexp for the search.  glad if somebody can
> > help.
>
>/\w+@\w+(\.\w+)+/

Hmm. It matches "ballabio / mac.com" and "ballabio / tsl.uu.se", but crops 
"luigi.ballabio / riskmap.net" to "ballabio / riskmap.net". I think

/\w+(\.\w+)*@\w+(\.\w+)+/

could be a more correct one.

Bye,
         Luigi