Level 6Exercise #138

Extract email addresses

Return simple email-like addresses found in free text.

What you’ll practice

This Level 6 exercise focuses on re.findall in the Professional curriculum. Solve the challenge prompt above using clear, idiomatic Python and the relevant language or standard-library tools.

Relevant Python reference: re — Regular expression operations, all().

Sample Test Cases

Example #1

Input:emails('Mail a@x.dev or b@y.com')

Output:['a@x.dev','b@y.com']

Reference Solution

Reveal Reference Solution

def emails(text: str) -> list[str]:
    import re
    return re.findall(r'[\w.+-]+@[\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)+', text)

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Extract email addresses

What you’ll practice

Sample Test Cases

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