Hello Perl Monks, Trying to parse an e-mail address vis: 

$adr = "User@domain.com";
@ads = split(/@/,$adr);

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What I was expecting was to achieve was: @ads[0]="User" @ads1="domain.com" what I get however is: @ads[0]="User.com" @ads1="" Aware that @ is a special character I tried various combinations of "\" and "@" as the split argument but alas the result is the same. As a slightly different approach I tried: 

$sub = $adr;
$sub =~ s/@/\@/;

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but again this gave $sub = "User.com" I guess I need to change the syntax somehow to accept the "@" or try a different approach altogether. Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks to everyone who responded for all the help.

In reply to Parsing an email address by gitano

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