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# Extract Email Addresses

## Description

This operation extracts email addresses from an input text using comprehensive RegEx patterns.

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## Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

### Input data

`String` - Input events to extract email addresses from.

### Output data

`ListString` - List of comma-separated extracted email addresses.

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## Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a <mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark>):

<details>

<summary>Sort Results</summary>

Set this parameter to **true** if you want to sort the extracted email adresses alphabetically, or **false** if you want to display them as they appear in the original input data. The default value is **false**.

</details>

<details>

<summary>Unique Only</summary>

Set this parameter to **true** (default value) if you want to include only unique email addresses in your results.&#x20;

</details>

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## Example

Suppose you want to **extract** all the **email addresses** from a given series of events. To do it:

1. In your Pipeline, open the required [Action](/pipelines/actions.md) configuration and select the input **Field**.
2. In the **Operation** field, choose **Extract Email Addresses**.
3. Set **Sort Results** to **false**.
4. Set **Unique Only** to **true**.
5. Give your **Output field** a name and click **Save**.

For example, given this input text:

```
The quarterly department meeting has been rescheduled to next Thursday. Please contact Sarah Johnson (
sjohnson384@example.net) with any conflicts. The marketing team's proposal, submitted by Michael Chen (
mchen2023@samplemail.org), received positive feedback from the board.
```

You'll get the following:

```
sjohnson384@example.net,mchen2023@samplemail.org
```

{% hint style="info" %}
You can try out operations with specific values using the **Input** field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the **Output** field.
{% endhint %}