I feel sort of stupid asking what seems such an easy question, but I will ask it anyway.

I want to print an email address and name in the following form

first last <email>
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I wrote some simple code to print this but I don't get the output I expect. Here is my output.

'first last '
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Here is my code.

use strict;

my $firstName = 'first';
my $lastName = 'last';
my $email = 'email@email.com';

print "$firstName $lastName \<$email\>";
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What am I doing wrong here?

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