Re: newbie question - handling email addresses

Great, thanks.  I had hoped that was the case.

On May 14, 11:33 am, [email protected] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote:
> Munzilla wrote:
> > i was told that Perl doesn't like the "@" character
>
> Then you were told wrong.
>
> What you need to take into account is that the '@' character in a double
> quoted string needs to be escaped, or else Perl tries to interpret it as
> the start of an array variable.
>
> As regards data from a form submission, the '@' character does not need
> any special treatment.
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> Email:http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl