Dear Colleagues, at the moment I`m writing script for an old RHEL 3. After script execution user will be prompted to insert E-mail address. The problem for me is that I dont know how to check if entered string is E-mail address. It should check if entered string is: - not empty - is similar to email@hostname - is similar to email@hostname.extension (for example: root@localhost.com) I done something like this, but its not working as expected. 
print "E-mail address:";
my $email = <>;
chomp $email;
until ($email =~ m/^[a-z0-9]@[a-z0-9]$/ && $email ne "" && $email =~ m
+/^[a-z0-9]@[a-z0-9].*$/)              # While input is wrong...
        {
        print "Uppps, sorry man, but it doesnt look like E-mail addres
+s :/";
        print "Wanna try again? ";     # Ask again
        $email = <STDIN>;             # Get input again
        chop $email;                      # Chop off newline again
        }

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Maybe somebody will be so kind and support me ? Zalezny

In reply to input - E-mail address - how to check string ? by zalezny

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