Hi, I have this below issue in Perl.
I have a file in which I get list of emails as input.
I would like to parse the string before '@' of all email addresses. (Later I will store all the string before @ in an array)

For eg. in : abcdefgh@gmail.com, i would like to parse the email address and extract abcdefgh.
My intention is to get only the string before '@'.
Now the question is how to check it using regular expression. Or is there any other method using substr?
while I use regular expression : $mail =~ "\@" in Perl, it's not giving me the result.
Also, how will I find that the character '@' is in which index of the string $mail?
I appreciate if anyone can help me out.

#! usr/bin/perl
$mail = "abcdefgh@gmail.com";
if ($mail =~ "\@" ) {
print("my name = You got it!");
}
else
{
print("my name = Try again!");
}
even $mail =~ "\@" will not work.
$mail =~ "@" will work only if the given string $mail = "abcdefgh\@gmail.com";
But in my case, i will be getting the input with email address as its.
Not with an escape character.

Thanks,
Tom

In reply to RegEx to find the index of the character '@' in an Email address by itsmetom

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