I use Win32 also and screwed with this for almost an hour before just trying to print the $text variable out. The output was everything minus "@mail", surely it's not going to find @mail.cp. I don't know how you are putting the information into the text variable, I assume you are using LWP::Simple and trying to fetch email address' from the web. I uploaded a page with some text similar to yours and used this script to retrieve it. Try it out, I will leave the page up for awhile. Hope this helps you. Mosley

use LWP::Simple;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$URL = "http://www.weedlinks.f2s.com/joeblow.html";

$page = get($URL); 
$page =~ s/\s+/ /g;
@text = split(/\s/, $page); 

foreach $line (@text) {
    if ($line =~ /\@/) { 
    @line = split(/\@/, $line); 
    
    print "@line[0]<br>";
    
    # If you just want to collect whole email address'.
    # Un (#) the next line.
    #print "$line<br>";

    # Or print to a database. Un (#) the next 3 lines.
    #open (DATABASE,">>joeblow.txt");
    #print DATABASE "$line\n"; 
    #close (DATABASE);
    }
}
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