Extract text between two character that appears multiple instance

Question

I have a string of email in a variable such as "Bill Warner (abc Ltd.)" <bill@abc.com>, "Paula Warner" <paula@abc.com>

I would like to create an array that extract each of the email and returns ["bill@abc.com","paula@abc.com"]

I find a way to make the extraction, using a custom function:

  def string_between_markers marker1, marker2
    self[/#{Regexp.escape(marker1)}(.*?)#{Regexp.escape(marker2)}/m, 1]
  end

Only issue, is that this works only once. What would be the right method to extract each of the email address please ?

Does this answer your question? [How to match all occurrences of a regex](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80357/how-to-match-all-occurrences-of-a-regex) — idmean, Jul 10 '21 at 09:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '21 at 10:26

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I used the following and it works:

.scan(/\<(.*)\>/).flatten

answered Jul 10 '21 at 10:26

Rene Chan

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