^([^@]+)@<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Paul Mooring <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:drpppr242@gmail.com">drpppr242@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">



  
  

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This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match everything up to a character not including that character with regex? For example:<br>
person@email.tld =&gt; person<br>
<a href="mailto:me@here.com" target="_blank">me@here.com</a> =&gt; me
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