# Is there any way I can automatically censor email addresses on posts?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [Fevereiro 19, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-automatically-censor-email-addresses-on-posts/25407 "2015-02-19T15:50:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [Maio 16, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-automatically-censor-email-addresses-on-posts/25407/7 "2017-05-16T19:28:27Z")

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censored pattern = `\d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+`

will censor xxx-yyyy phone numbers and email addresses.

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