Using Grep to Filter Email Addresses
Don't be misled by the title of this article! If you're not interested in capturing email addresses from your email client - straight into a FileMaker field - then think about any pattern of text which you would like to capture. If you do need to extract email addresses from a mailbox full of email then you're in for a treat!
Regular Expressions, also known as regex, which is also known by the name of a command line tool named grep, can extract pretty much anything you could ever want from any piece of text.
In this video we look at a very powerful technique of being able to extract email addresses straight from the mail box file(s) of your email client. This is the fastest method for performing this type of extraction. If you've been using AppleScript or VBScript to perform this task, then be prepared to be impressed!