Get an email from a string

Question

A Newbie here

This is my problem

Let say my string is

var string = "this is a string that contains many different words
domain@gmail.com an I want just the email";

what I want is a regex or something different that gets just this domain@gmail.com

I've tried many things but none has worked

this is the last one I've tried

var myRegexp = /@(.*)/;
var match = myRegexp.exec(string);
if(match)
  console.log(match[1]);

this always returns null or undefined

can anyone help me out

EDIT

I want something that search for everything before and after @ and stops on blank space

thanks

I'm pretty sure if you search for "email regex" you will find something. — Jeremy Thille, Jan 07 '16 at 17:35
http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html For a complete solution. — CollinD, Jan 07 '16 at 17:36
Try `var match = string.match(/ \S+@(\S+)/);`. Also use `console.log(match[0])` to see whole match. — , Jan 07 '16 at 17:36
What if the email address comes right at the end of the string? — , Jan 07 '16 at 17:52
jusopi answer Worked for me, Thanks all for your answer and @terminija no I didn't want to validate an email I wanted to get one from a long string — Hyra10, Jan 07 '16 at 17:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '16 at 17:37

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emails = str.match(/(\S[^\s@]*@\S+)/gi)

answered Jan 07 '16 at 17:37

jusopi

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What is the purpose of the surrounding parentheses? Also, why not do `/\S+?@\S+/`? – Jan 07 '16 at 17:52
Nice. this worked as well ! – Venkat.R Jan 07 '16 at 17:56
@torazaburo I generally use the parentheses out of habit. It's useful in case maybe they wanted to add ` – jusopi Jan 07 '16 at 18:04

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