My thanks to Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> for responding and attempting to help.
I dredged a little more in the available documentation and examples, and finally came up with the following which works and which also does the decoding that (of quoted-printable) that I needed... ======================================================================== #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use MIME::Parser; use MIME::Decoder; my $parser = new MIME::Parser; my $entire = $parser->parse(\*STDIN) or die "parse failed\n"; my $etype = $entire->effective_type(); print STDERR ($etype, "\n"); my $part0 = $entire->parts(0); my $body = $part0->bodyhandle; my $IO = $body->open("r") || die "open body: $!"; my $decoder = new MIME::Decoder 'quoted-printable' or die "unsupported"; $decoder->decode($IO, \*STDOUT); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/