why isn't this working (perl Question)

Try this

$bufr =~ /\<(.*\@.*)\>/;
if ($1) {
$email = $1;
}

Sean Roe wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a regex in a perl program that should return an email address but
> instead it returns 1. THe line in question is:
>
> $email = $bufr =~ /\<*.\@.*\>/;
>
> I am trying to parse a log for bad email addresses but it seems to only
> return 1 in $email when it finds one. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Sean
>
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