How to extract unique email addresses from a group of files

Modified on 2010/02/19 14:54 by Administrator — Categorized as: Uncategorized

FileLocator Pro's XML export and XSLT custom formatting features allow for some powerful export operations.

Example: Exporting unique email addresses from files

1. Open FileLocator Pro

2. In the 'File name' field specify the group of files to search through, e.g. *.txt

3. In the 'Containing text' field specify a regular expression to find emails, e.g.

\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b

4. Run the search

5. When the search has finished browse the results to make sure they're correct

6. Click the Export Results button, or choose 'Export Results...' from the File menu

7. In the Export Results dialog change the Format to be 'Custom (XSLT)' select the transform:

C:\Program Files\Mythicsoft\FileLocator Pro\Sample Transforms\unique_hits_only.xsl

8. Click the Export button

You should find that a complete unique list of email addresses has been exported to the specified location.