newbie question - handling email addresses
Hi, I'm 100% new to Perl but I've been given a project with it anyway, so I have some pretty basic questions. The script is used to process a form submitted in PHP. I have it working fine, but I need to add an email address field now. i was told that Perl doesn't like the @ character (which makes sense), and I know that I could use the backslash, but does Perl treat the submitted field as an object, or will I have to add some functionality which adds the backslashes before the form is submitted to the Perl? Basically, do I need to even worry about the @ symbol if I'm working with the submitted form fields in Perl, or will the @ still crash the script? Thanks. Munz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: newbie question - handling email addresses
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
