Given a file as input.txt containing some email ids which are mixed with other data. The task is to read this input file line by line and if any email id is found in that line, write that email id to another file, which is output.txt. Example:
Input: input.txt
Output: output.txt
Approach: To detect the email id in that file, a simple solution is Regular expression. First, we have to form a regular expression for email id. Whenever any string in the input.txt file matches with that regular expression which we form for email id, then that matched string will be written to output.txt file. A string is said to be email id if that string follow below criteria:
- The first character can be lowercase or uppercase alphabet or it can contain any digit from 0 to 9.For this criteria, regular expression [a-zA-Z0-9]
- The rest character after the first character and until reaching @, the characters can be lowercase or uppercase alphabet or it can contain any digit from 0 to 9 or special symbol ‘_’ and ‘.’ .For this criteria, regular expression [a-zA-Z0-9_.]*
- After the above two criteria, the string contain symbol ‘@’.After that string should contain any lowercase or uppercase alphabet or it can contain any digit from 0 to 9.For this criteria, regular expression @[a-zA-Z0-9]
- After containing ‘@’ symbol, the string should contain ‘.’ symbol and after that the string should contain any lowercase or uppercase alphabet.For this criteria, regular expression [.][a-zA-Z]
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
Java
// Java program to extract the// email ids from a given text fileimport java.util.regex.*;import java.io.*;class EmailIdExtraction { public static void extractEmailIds( BufferedReader br, PrintWriter pw, Pattern p) { String line = br.readLine(); while (line != null) { Matcher m = p.matcher(line); // If any match while (m.find()) { // write the email id // to output.txt file pw.println(m.group()); } // Goto next line in input.txt file line = br.readLine(); } pw.flush(); } // Driver code public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { // PrintWriter for writing email id // to output.txt file PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter("output.txt"); // Compile() argument is the // regular expression for email id Pattern p = Pattern.compile( "[a-zA-Z0-9]" + "[a-zA-Z0-9_.]" + "*@[a-zA-Z0-9]" + "+([.][a-zA-Z]+)+"); // BufferedReader for reading // from input.txt file BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new FileReader("input.txt")); // Calling extractEmailIds extractEmailIds(br, pw, p); }} |
Input:
Hello my name is Bishal Dubey and my email id is dubey.bishal159@gmail.com . Welcome to Geeksforgeeks, A Computer Science portal for geeks. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes . My brother, Bikash Dubey having email id bikashdubey42@gmail.com and my friend Tanu Jain having email id tanu_jain@gmail.com contributing to neveropen. If you like Lazyroar and would like to contribute, you can also mail your article to review-team@neveropen.co.za.
Output:
dubey.bishal159@gmail.com bikashdubey42@gmail.com tanu_jain@gmail.com review-team@neveropen.co.za