I have a new perl problem, that I haven't quite figured out the Regular Expression for. We have a web based form that submits data in paragraph form with variables from the form entered into it. A typical set of data may look like this.

Patron @FirstName@ @LastName@ has filled out the @FormName@ form. Plea
+se send them an email at @EmailAddress@.
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Where FirstName, LastName, FormName, and EmailAddress are the actual values, not the variable names. What I need to do, is highlight each of those variables by placing a <B> after the first "@" and a </B> before the second "@", in each one of those variables (without removing the "@"). Best I can come up with is going through the string one character at a time, and watching which "@" I am on. There has got to be a better way to perform this. Iterating over the whole string like that seems sloppy.

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