Hi Monks. This is so simple but has been a major pain for me. Here goes:

I read a data source to get a e-mail address. The match is made so the string $emailaddress is populated with (lets say) someone@where.com ... I then call up a mailer and pass the $emailaddress to it so it knows who to send the mail to. My problem: If I manually define: 

$emailaddress = 'someone@where.com'; 
$emailaddress = "someone\@where.com";

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The string is passed correctly. I know why I have to escape the @ character or use ticks instead of quotes but how can I escape it AFTER the string is already defined?

The data source record is saved as someone@where.com not someone\@where.com.

Thank you all in advance.
Brandon

In reply to Simple problem with @ in string. by bcens

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