Email addresses in perl scripts

[andycheese]

Stupid question this, but it just hit me- if I'm passing an email address to a server-side cgi script (from a webpage), do I have to inspect the address and put in an escape (backslash) before the "@" so perl doesn't interpret it as an array?

(probably a stupid question, I know.)

 

[webgeo]

Nope, you don't have to worry about this, perl ignores the @.

 

[andycheese]

Thanks, that's what I thought but it's always best to ask if you're a newbie!