Hi All,

I need a regex that matches the first email address found in a string of text imported from a person’s curriculum vitae.

I found the example bellow for retrieving an RFC 2822 email address.

((?<user>(?:(?:[^ \t\(\)\<\>@,;\:\\\"\.\[\]\r\n]+)|(?:\"(?:(?:[^\"\\\r\n])|(?:\\.))*\"))(?:\.(?:(?:[^ \t\(\)\<\>@,;\:\\\"\.\[\]\r\n]+)|(?:\"(?:(?:[^\"\\\r\n])|(?:\\.))*\")))*)@(?<domain>(?:(?:[^ \t\(\)\<\>@,;\:\\\"\.\[\]\r\n]+)|(?:\[(?:(?:[^\[\]\\\r\n])|(?:\\.))*\]))(?:\.(?:(?:[^ \t\(\)\<\>@,;\:\\\"\.\[\]\r\n]+)|(?:\[(?:(?:[^\[\]\\\r\n])|(?:\\.))*\])))*))

This works fine, it finds all email address however I would like to only return the first email address found.

How do I change the above regex to only find the first email address?

Thanks in advance for any help received.

David