Re: Simplest Way to Edit EML Files?

Can I use Email::Simple and Email::MIME to edit these files?

Just try it. It could be that your headers are so damaged that they cannot be parsed anymore, but unless you try, you will not know.

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Re^2: Simplest Way to Edit EML Files? by Jim (Curate) on Jun 17, 2013 at 18:25 UTC
Thanks for your reply, CountZero. The reason I posted an inquiry on PerlMonks before I delved into using Email::Simple is because it wasn't obvious to me from its documentation whether it could be used to edit EML files in place (effectively, at least). I needed to make small changes to many EML files, but I didn't want to have to construct whole Internet mail messages anew. And it takes me longer than it probably takes most Perl programmers to learn to use a new module. It turns out I don't have to repair the EML files after all. But I do have to extract the character encoding damaged text from them and make a best effort to reverse the corruption. (See How to Fix Character Encoding Damaged Text Using Perl?.) I was able to determine that, in my finite collection of EML files, the damaged text is consistently in the same format, so matching the pattern was trivial using a regular expression. The script I wrote is included below. Read more... (1202 Bytes)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Simplest Way to Edit EML Files?
by Jim (Curate) on Jun 17, 2013 at 18:25 UTC

Thanks for your reply, CountZero.

The reason I posted an inquiry on PerlMonks before I delved into using Email::Simple is because it wasn't obvious to me from its documentation whether it could be used to edit EML files in place (effectively, at least). I needed to make small changes to many EML files, but I didn't want to have to construct whole Internet mail messages anew. And it takes me longer than it probably takes most Perl programmers to learn to use a new module.

It turns out I don't have to repair the EML files after all. But I do have to extract the character encoding damaged text from them and make a best effort to reverse the corruption. (See How to Fix Character Encoding Damaged Text Using Perl?.) I was able to determine that, in my finite collection of EML files, the damaged text is consistently in the same format, so matching the pattern was trivial using a regular expression. The script I wrote is included below.