No, that would give you one problem and one misconception. The problem is that the join will give you one scalar whereas you are assigning to a list (of two scalars). The misconception is that if you have only one scalar value for param("email") then the for is irrelevant since it is there to loop over all values and you have only one. kcott has included the for in his example because he is showing you the results of both input forms.

If you want the name and email as separate scalars then just do this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

# ... something here which defines param()

my $fullmail = param ("email");
my ($name,$email) = ($fullmail =~ /^(.+?)\s+<?(\S+?)>?$/);
print "Name is $name, Email is $email, Original is $fullmail\n";

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In reply to Re^3: Getting email from fields by hippo
in thread Getting email from fields by bizactuator

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