Toby, anyone, My next question is I guess I need to know now why this happens?
So that I can anticipate it and code for it in the future. e.g sorcha.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] So why does it convert it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when it writes it out to the text file. What is best practice can I stop it from converting the funny characters before I write it out to the text file or should I run each email address through the regex each time I read the text file into the array that I use. Thanking you in anticipation Colin > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:22 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Preserving funny characters in email addresses > > > Gidday All, > > I have written a perl cgi mailing list subscription application. > > How do I preserve funny characters in email addresses for example > > one subscriber's email address is > > sorcha.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but when written to the textfile where I store subscribers > names it is written as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Because of this she doesn't get the first email from us > telling her that she needs to confirm her subscription. > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanking you in anticipation > > use URI::Escape; $str = uri_unescape('[EMAIL PROTECTED]'); print $str; OR $str = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; $str =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; print $str; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
