Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script which updates the users e-mail address according to wherever the users type in the browser. The script does other stuffs but this what i am struggling with ..lol. Basically, we are using the command below to try to update the e-mail, however since the e-mail address has "@" the perl is not able to update (e-mail is not an array).

perl -pe 's/$old_email/$newemail/g' -pi $file`;

The e-mail are defined in two variables (old and new email)

Can you anyone please help me on this?

ps: Sorry, i am new using perl.

Thank you all,
Carlos

You have to quote @'s.

pail\@somewhere.com

You don't show where $old_mail and $newmail come from. If they have been se at the command line, that's the problem. It wouldn't be a problem if you read them from a file.

Hi Tony, thanks for your reply.
Actually the values are typed by the users (from the a webpage) and then the they are stored in the variable ->$newemail and $old_mail and it is in the file.

In the code it is more like this:

for ($i=0, $i<$sw, $i++)
{
local $tmp_email ="FORM_EMAIL$j";
$newemail ="$ENV{$tmp_email}";

`perl -pe 's/$old_email[$j]/$newloc $newemail/g' -pi $file`;

}

$sw -> it the users number

So, I am not sure this can be done as you said "pail\@somewhere.com", since the values are encrypted into the variables.

Thanks for your help.
Carlos

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Please help me