Questions about builtin RegExp

[Walter Bright]

"Andrew Fedoniouk" <news at terrainformatica.com> wrote in message 
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> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>> Writing a real lexer takes a lot of effort. That's why people invented 
>> regex, it'll handle most jobs without having to write a lexer. C's 
>> strtok() is embarassingly inadequate.
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> Why?

I'd like to see strtok() parse an email address out of a body of text.