i am processing an email message that is saved to a text file... currently my processing only locates the content type, plain/text or multipart... if multipart, then we look for the plain/text section and the multipart boundary... all we want is the plain/text...
i've been doing this with a TP/BP program but have recently run into a problem with line lengths longer than 255 characters... so i'm porting the tool to be a native OS/2 FPC tool... the only real change i had to make was to change "string" to "ansistring"...
now i'm wanting to clean up the rest of the processing... previously we were using the above mentioned tool to extract and save the plain text content... in some cases, this is peppered with things like "=20" for spaces, "=99" for "(tm)" and such... and yes, in some cases lines are broken at a set length with "=" at their end... i want to clean all of this up in the above tool so that i can get rid of the external sed processing...
the sed processing works and works well but now i'm (back) to having clean lines longer than 255 characters... another tool takes this output file and posts it to various message bases but the other tool cannot be so easily ported to handle line lengths longer than 255 characters... so one of the things the initial conversion tool also needs to do, after everything else, is to word-wrap at column 70 or the first previous space if column 70's character is not a space...
what would you recommend for handling this process so that the tool i'm converting outputs a clean plain ascii text file with no lines longer than 70 characters? is there a mime(?) conversion library available in FPC to handle that part so i don't have to code specific replacements as i do with the sed process now? is there a line length routine that will break long lines into individual lines of X length?
in my BP/TP world, i had things like word-wrap taken care of with other libraries but i cannot port them to FPC (yet)... my main goal is to get this one tool working first and then move on to other tasks...
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