I have a piece of code, where some value ( an email address ) that comes from the db using the ORM module Class::DBI. See below

 my $email = $member->email # email address is fetched from the db. say for ex: peter@gmail.com

Now I want to split the username and domain from the email address. But since @ is a special character when I try to split the string $email with '@', its not working as expected. I think Perl already interpolates it while assigning the value to $email. For easy description, see the below code and help me to fix it.

my $email = "peter@gmail.com";  # In real case its from $member->email
+. So don't ask me to replace this with "peter\@gmail.com" or 'peter@g
+mail.com'
my ($u,$d) = split (/@/,$email);
print "$u,$d\n";

[download]

In reply to Disable Interpolation while assigning a value to a variable by Sai

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.