printing/parsing string including "@"

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Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by no_slogan (Deacon) on Sep 10, 2002 at 16:49 UTC
kabel nailed it. Yet another reason to always `use warnings;`. If you had, you might have seen a warning message like this: > perl -e 'use warnings; my $string="name@domain.com"' Possible unintended interpolation of @domain in string at -e line 1. Name "main::domain" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.	[reply]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by kabel (Chaplain) on Sep 10, 2002 at 16:41 UTC
just put a backslash before the @ to "escape" it, or you put the string inside single quotes to avoid that the array stringifies.	[reply]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 10, 2002 at 16:48 UTC
a \ before the @ will do it in double quotes, but if you don't need a string that interpolates variables, you can always use single quotes... `"name\@domain.com" 'name@domain.com'` [download] this works for $, too - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2002 at 16:50 UTC
Why not just use single quotes? `$string = 'name@domain.com'; print $string;` [download] Double quoted strings expand variables. @domain looks like a variable. Therefore Perl tries to expand it - but it's empty. As usual, running with `-w` and `use strict` would have shown you what the problem was. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply] [d/l]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by Pahrohfit (Sexton) on Sep 10, 2002 at 18:29 UTC
Since @ is one of many "special", or reserved characters in Perl, you would need to do one of the following: `$string = 'name@domain.com'; print $string; --or-- $string = "name\@domain.com"; print $string;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by JP Sama (Hermit) on Sep 10, 2002 at 19:41 UTC
well, it's a little strange to visit perlmonks after a long away period... But it's even stranger to see so many replies with the same answer to one simple question... #!/usr/bin/perl -w `mount`; print $! if $!;	[reply]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by Jasper (Chaplain) on Sep 11, 2002 at 15:28 UTC
Is this a joke? Surely there are more worthy questions we could be looking at on the front page. Jasper	[reply]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by Anonymous Monk on Sep 10, 2002 at 22:27 UTC
You need to escape the @ example: `$string = "name\@domain.com";<br> print $string;<br>` [download] result: name@domain.com	[reply] [d/l]
Re: printing/parsing string including "@" by Anonymous Monk on Sep 11, 2002 at 14:48 UTC
print "name\@domain.com\n"; \n is optional. M	[reply]