Assignment of Query value to local variable

[eluser]shahnawazahmed[/eluser]
Hey everyone ,

i am new to programming and codeigniter as well, i am facing minor issue in getting value from the sql query

here it is

$this->db->where('email_address', $this->input->post('email_address'));

i want to assign the email_address value to the $email local variable ..

please give me a tip

Thank you