On Saturday 18 January 2003 05:46 pm, you wrote: > I have used the "\", and the sendmail then worked. I was looking for > something similar to the PHP addslashes(). Or maybe replace, like > replace(strAdd, "@", "\@"). > Thanks, bb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:16 PM > To: Beginners-Cgi > Subject: Re: Escape Characters > > On Saturday 18 January 2003 03:44 pm, you wrote: > > I'm trying to send mail to users returned from a database. The problem > > occurs when sendmail sees the "@" in the email address. > > Is there a function to escape reserved characters? > > Also, does sendmail allow sending as HTML? > > TIA bb > > Yes the perl escape character is \. This character will tell perl > to ignore the next character no matter what it is. > Sendmail will send anything you set it up to send (IMHO). > It normally handles html just fine. The problems with html email > usually happen on either end. That is, the sender or receiver. > Don't blame sendmail! $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; $email =~ s/\@/\\\@/; this will put the escape character into the variable $email.
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