Regex to match multiple emails separated by space or puncts

Question

I need a regex to match multiple email address separated by space(s) and/or puncts. The email addresses are into a string. I'm trying this, but it doesn't works

^(\s[[:punct:]])*([a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}){1}(\s[[:punct:]])*$

Text could be like this:

abcd@abcd.ef, abcd@abcd.ef abcd@abcd.ef

Or even like this

Lorem ipsum dolor sit abcd@abcd.ef amet, consectetur, abcd@abcd.ef, adipiscing elit. Vestibulum consectetur fringilla mi ac dignissim. Nulla at est quam. abcd@abcd.ef Sed enim.

split/explode the string w.r.t. `,`; then use http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php — hjpotter92, Nov 18 '14 at 17:20
See also [Using a regular expression to validate an email address](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-expression-to-validate-an-email-address). — Jocelyn, Nov 18 '14 at 18:33
I've seen that. I need to catch every email address from a text to manipulate it later — Antoder, Nov 18 '14 at 18:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '14 at 18:55

you could replace the ^ and $ anchors with something that doesn't force the email to be both first and last in the line...

like \b (word boundry)

\b(\s[[:punct:]])*([a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}){1}(\s[[:punct:]])*\b

or nothing at all ?

(\s[[:punct:]])*([a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}){1}(\s[[:punct:]])*

http://rubular.com/r/AMnr2kzp09

or simply

(\b[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}\b)

since the {1} was restricting the number of emails you could match between ^ and $

Regex to match multiple emails separated by space or puncts

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