Simple regular expression

[mouncifb]

this must be a stupid question, I am newbie in perl.

I have a variable called

$email = "mail: firstname.lastname@domain.com";

I want to return just firstname.lastname@domain.com and store
it in another variable called $email2.

I know it's a perl regular expression but I have no clue.

thanks

 

[ishnid]

No need for a regexp if it's always in that format:

my $extracted_email = substr( $email, 6 );

 

[KevinADC]

hopefully you have varibale using single-quotes:

$email = 'mail: firstname.lastname@domain.com';

or the @ symbol is escaped in your double-quoted string. Otherwise perl will interpolate @domain as an array and you will end up with:

firstname.lastname.com

or if @domain happend to be a valid array it would be expanded into the string.


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