If you just want to do your task i.e. separating email id from a large text. Please click the below link to use our email separator. and You can choose any symbol as a separator.
Email Extractor Tool(click here)
and if you want to develop the email separator then following is the html and javascript code. Just copy it and paste it in a notepad and save it as html file.
Email-Extractor.html:
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<html>
<head><title>Email Extractor- AnyForum</title></head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function findEmail() {
var email = "No email address detected";
var a = 0;
var ingroup = 0;
var separator = document.extractor.sep.value;
var groupby = Math.round(document.extractor.groupby.value);
if (separator == "new") separator = "\n";
if (separator == "other") separator = document.extractor.othersep.value;
var rawemail = document.extractor.rawdata.value.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)/gi); //match the email pattern in large text pasted in textarea.
var norepeat = new Array();
if (rawemail) {
for (var i=0; i<rawemail.length; i++) {
var repeat = 0;
// Check for repeated emails routine
for (var j=i+1; j<rawemail.length; j++) {
if (rawemail[i] == rawemail[j]) {
repeat++;
}
}
// Create new array for non-repeated emails
if (repeat == 0) {
norepeat[a] = rawemail[i];
a++;
}
}
if (document.extractor.sort.checked) norepeat = norepeat.sort(); // Sort the array
email = "";
// Join emails together with separator
for (var k = 0; k < norepeat.length; k++) {
if (ingroup != 0) email += separator;
email += norepeat[k];
ingroup++;
// Group emails if a number is specified in form. Each group will be separate by new line.
if (groupby) {
if (ingroup == groupby) {
email += '\n\n';
ingroup = 0;
}
}
}
}
// Return array length
var count = norepeat.length;
// Print results
document.extractor.count.value = count;
document.extractor.rawdata.value = email;
}
</script>
<FORM name="extractor">
<TABLE bgcolor="#CCCCCC" cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<TR>
<TD>
<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=8 cellspacing=0 bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<TR class="titlebarcolor">
<TD valign="TOP" colspan=2 ><h2 align="center"><FONT class="titlefont"><strong>Email
Extractor</strong></FONT></h2>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD valign="TOP" align="CENTER" colspan=2>
<SCRIPT language="JAVASCRIPT">
var introtext = 'Copy text from any source and paste it into here. Then click extract button. You can select different separator (or enter your own), group a number of emails and sort extracted emails alphabetically.';
document.write('<TEXTAREA NAME="rawdata" rows=12 cols=50 onFocus="if (this.value == introtext) this.value = \'\';">' + introtext + '</TEXTAREA>');
</SCRIPT>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD valign="TOP" align="LEFT" colspan=2> Separator:
<SELECT name="sep">
<OPTION value=", ">Comma</OPTION>
<OPTION value="|">Pipe</OPTION>
<OPTION value=" : ">Colon</OPTION>
<OPTION value="new">New Line</OPTION>
<OPTION value="other">Other</OPTION>
</SELECT>
<INPUT type="TEXT" name="othersep" size=3 onBlur="checksep(this.value)">
Group:
<INPUT type="TEXT" size=3 name="groupby" onBlur="numonly(this.value)">
Emails
<LABEL for="sortbox">
<INPUT type="CHECKBOX" name="sort" id="sortbox">
Sort Alphabetically</LABEL>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="TOP">
<TD align="LEFT">
<INPUT name="BUTTON" type="BUTTON" class="button" onClick="findEmail()" value="Extract">
<INPUT name="RESET" type="RESET" class="button" value="Reset">
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
</SCRIPT>
</TD>
<TD align="RIGHT" valign="BOTTOM" nowrap> Email count:
<INPUT name="count" size=5 readonly>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</body>
</html>
