In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote "Chris Zampese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi All, > I have a file that contains the contents of an email. Its format is shown below... > > (Lots of lines of random stuff) > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > The message of the email is here then it is followed by > > ------=_NextPart_000_0118_01C1B358.DE107900 > (lots more lines of stuff) > > how would I get just the message into a variable (or array or whatever) so that I >can use it? One way could be to read the file until the nextpart-statement comes. The snippet would read like: my @email; open EMAIL, "<filename" or die "Cannot open filename: $!"; while (<EMAIL>) { last if /NextPart/; push @email, $_; } close EMAIL; Now, @email contains all lines before. Best Wishes, Andrea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]