I you just say use strict;
my $full_address = '"My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' my ($user, $email) = split (/</,$full_address); $user =~ s/"//g; # remove the " in the name, you could perfect it so that it only removes the first and last one, keeping Robert "bob" Ducharme as $name with the " in it $email =~ s/>//g; # remove the last > in the adress print "hello $user, is $email you adress?\n"; Etienne "Watkiss, Stewart" wrote: > Hello, > > This is a resend of my earlier email. Apologies to anyone that couldn't read > my earlier email - I forgot to change the formatting to plain text. How > outlook express can let you specify a format per user, but outlook 2000 > can't I'll never know. > > > I have a program that deals with Email addresses. The addresses are in the > form "Name" <emailaddress> which is a single string: > ie. > > "My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I need to seperate the comment part (ie. the users name) from the email > address part. > > $full_address = '"My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' # Read from a file > ($user, $email) = split /</, $full_address; > > The problem is that I can't get the split to work on the '<' character. I've > tried different permatations including \< and [<] etc., but it never seams > to match on the triangular brackets. Does anyone know how this could be > achieved. > > Thanks > Stewart > > -- > Stewart Watkiss > AT&T GNS EMEA Security Solutions - Security Analysis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PLEASE reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please do not > use my ibm email address for any future correspondence > This message and any attachments to it contain confidential business > information exclusively intended for the recipients. Please do not forward > or distribute it to anyone else. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please call +44 1926 464052 to report the error and then delete this message > from your system. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
