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Jim Gibson

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From: Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:09:25 -0700

Local: Fri, May 16 2008 3:09 pm

Subject: Re: Simple problem with Email::Address

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In article <aahr24dpblvs36fuh7ja9gvdhavod3k...@library.airnews.net>,

Bernie Cosell <ber...@fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to parse an email address and I can't seem to get Email::Address
> to work quite.

You are not calling parse() correctly.

> #!/usr/bin/perl

> use strict;
> use warnings ;
> use Email::Address ;

> my $addr = "My Name <myname\@verizon.net>\n" ;
> my @addrs = Email::Address::parse($addr) ;

my @addrs = Email::Address->parse($addr);

> warn scalar(@addrs) ;

> Gets me "0" -- it appears not to parse that string, which certainly looks
> like a legal email addr to me [am I missing some problem with it?? -- I
> actually pulled it out of a file of addresses that sendmail is happily
> sending-via]. What am I missing here? THANKS!

perldoc Email::Address

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Jim Gibson

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