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I have a HUGE line list(I will limit the example to one line) in the format:

"[First Name] [Last Name] <[email address]>"

I ran a regular expression in a string to split this into an array.

<cfset x = REMatch("<(.*?)>",list) />

This works fine except that it also returns angular brackets <>around the email address

x[1] = <[email address]>

Just for simplicity, because cfdocs are rather ambiguous, I wrote this loop to remove the first and last characters of each index.

<cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(x)#" index="y">
    <cfset a = #RemoveChars(x[y], 1, 1)# />
    <cfset a = #left(a,len(a)-1)# />
    <cfset x[y] = a />
</cfloop>

This works fine, yay, now I have an array.

However, this is not what I wanted. How can I return the email address WITHOUT the angular brackets included first?

(Note that I also tried REReplaceand REFindonly returns the index of the event)

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Coldfusion (Apache ORO, . ), lookbehind, .

:

<cfset x = REMatch("[^<>]+(?=>)",list) />

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[^<>]+  # Match one or more characters except angle brackets
(?=>)   # Make sure the next character is a closing angle bracket
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