>I am also told that email addresses must be formatted like the below
>example. Again, if this is true, why?
>
>/address\@nowhere.net/
In Perl, anything between the /'s (ie: /badword/) will be used for the regexp.
Since the '@' is a special character to Perl (used as an array
description), putting a \ in front of it tells Perl that you want it
treated as the character itself, and not to use it for it's regular
intended purpose... that's why you see \@
HTH,
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