Extracting an email from a string

Trying to extract an email from a string.

I have tried

publicfinal String rx_email ="[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}";

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile( rx_email, Pattern.DOTALL );

String sRecptMessage = read();

System.out.println("sRecptMessage: " + sRecptMessage );

Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher( sRecptMessage );

while( matcher.find() ){

String to_email = matcher.group( 1 );

System.out.println("to_email: " + to_email );

}

The code is not matching the email address in the string.

Is this a problem with the reg expression or something else.

Regards

[881 byte] By [jayclarkea] at [2007-10-2 16:10:26]