[PLUG] Perl is EVIL!!

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Fri Oct 31 19:21:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:36, jm wrote:
> begin electrogrammati illius AthlonRob:

> > I'm stumped.  Any ideas?  This is the *first* perl script I've ever
> > written, so be gentle.  :-)
> 
> Hiya, this won't help if you're determined to do it "the hard way",
> but there's a handy perl module called MIME::Parser that's designed
> to do exactly this extraction, and will save you a lot of grief. It
> is part of the standard MIME-Tools suite. "perldoc MIME::Parser"
> seems to have much sample code.

Cool.

That comes close to doing exactly what I need.  The only problem I have
with it is I can't get the output to go to stdout.  I think I can deal
with that, though, with a bash script and some cat usage. 

I still do wonder, however, why my script didn't work...  :-)

Thanks!

Rob





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