Best way to parse string of email addresses

Question

So i am working with some email header data, and for the to:, from:, cc:, and bcc: fields the email address(es) can be expressed in a number of different ways:

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Answer 1

I use the following regular expression in Java to get email string from RFC-compliant email address:

[A-Za-z0-9]+[A-Za-z0-9._-]+@[A-Za-z0-9]+[A-Za-z0-9._-]+[.][A-Za-z0-9]{2,3}