> I have a regex in a perl program that should return an email address but
> instead it returns 1. THe line in question is:
The matching operator does 2 things, it returns true or false (1 or 0),
and it also sets a bunch of variables, what you want to do is check off of
the value, and assign from one of those variables, ie:
if ($bufr =~ /\<.*\@.*\>/)
{
$email = $&; # the $& variable holds the last thing matched
}
--Nick
> $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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