following some threads on regex matching on this list, i was able to write some
one-liners in Perl that cleaned up forwarded messages that i typically see in list
emails.
so, you turn something like:
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into:
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but, rather than peck out simplistic pattern-matching code ala sed or awk, i was
wondering if some Perl tools exist already that help re-format inline messages.
hell, even sharing a personal perl script that cleans up messages would be appreciated.
my next project (while squeezing in my normal work routine, of course : P ) is to
filter inline forwarded messages so that they not only remove angle brackets, and
left-indent, but also have only one blank line between "paragraphs".
my embarrasingly simple problem is how to tell a snippet of pattern-matching perl code
what a "paragraph" is...
anyhow, i guess i'm asking 3 questions:
1) is there some good message filtering Perl code flying around out there?
2) how to define a "paragraph" in Perl script (so as to act on the stuff _after_ a
paragraph is encountered).
3) where is a near-comprehensive listing of pattern-matching code for Perl scripts on
the web? for example, i would never have figured out the '^M' filter to be 'cM' as
one poster suggested, or even '\r' as someone else suggested.
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