If you want to see if a variable contains a @, do what the other
suggested. If you want to see if you have (at least) a well formed
email address (with optional MX host checking) look at Email::Valid.

Cheers,
Kevin

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:58:11PM -0400, Daniel Falkenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said 
something similar to:
> Hello All,
> 
> How would I go about checking to see if a variable contains an @ symbol?
> 
> $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
> 
> if ($email ne "@" || $email eq "") {
>  print "Please make sure your type your email address in correctly";
> } else {
>   print "All is OK";
> }
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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