I have a form that people fill out and I've seen people putting their email like this:

My name <email@example.com>

So using Perl, what is the best way to get their Name in a variable and the email in another, IF they put it like that, and if they put it like this:

My Name email@example.com

I tried checking if < existed:

 $_email = param("email");
 if($_email =~ /\>/) {
     # split value 
 }

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but it did not work right.

anyone have any code already that does it? or is there a module that already extrapolates the name and email from a field?
Thank you so much in advance.
my best,
-Rich

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