Please choose a subject that is reflective of your post and start a new
thread when appropriate...
>
> I have a list of email addresses in a text file one to a line. How
would I
> seach for a particular email address?
>
> $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
>
The @ in the above does need to be escaped as you indicate, or use
single quotes around it to prevent variable interpolation.
> while <FILE> {
> if ($email eq $_) {
> $OK = 1;
> }
> }
>
> It seems the @ symbol somehow doesn't work in this search. What would
be a
> better (or right) way to do this? thanks in advance.
>
Careful with the above, as you may need to chomp $_, etc. You may also
want to have a look at:
perldoc -f grep
Where is your 'use strict; use warnings;'??
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