[H-GEN] replacing text between 2 strings

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Shaun Nykvist <shaun at kangawallafox.com.au> writes:

> Yes I am trying to reformat email archives that have been output
> from a lyris mail server, and have already gone through many
> transformations on both unix and windoze servers.

Oh boy.  Fun, fun, fun!

> It has become a messy situation with an early version of lyris
> creating a txt archive but unable to parse its own imput when
> importing them back.

It just gets better!

> I have found a format that Lyris likes and am trying to reformat
> them to suit it.

I see.  I would recommend examining the wealth of pre-made tools which
are available to you.

I had to do something with a lot of email about a week ago and was
surprised at how easy it was (I was reading in about 75MB of mail in
mbox format and resorting it by send date into other mailboxes in mbox
format).

Using Mail::Internet (a perl module) and a few other tools made this
*very* easy and may simplify your life quite a bit.

> Due to research being conducted on the archives, they need to be
> re-instated and lyris have been unable to provide a solution to date

I'd also be more than happy to talk to you privately a bit more about
helping out if that's doable for you.

Cheers,

jason
-- 
``I may have agreed to something involving a goat.''  -- CJ

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