Re: Problems displaying a single message with Mail::Box

Don't ask me why, but the Mail::Box documentation appears to be wrong somehow, or perl's behaviour has changed while the documentation hasn't.
$message is a Mail::Box::Mbox::Message object, which can't be printed directly.

Use $message->print(), or $message->head() and $message->body() if you need a scalar.

I think some older perl parsed print $folder->message(0) as $folder->message(0)->print, but it does CORE::print($folder->message(0)).

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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Re: Re: Problems displaying a single message with Mail::Box by BazB (Priest) on Dec 20, 2001 at 02:41 UTC
Juerd - Thanks - this does work, but I'm a bit puzzled - where is this documented? `$folder->message($msg_num)->print;` [download] Prints the message out just fine. Is this something that I should consider emailling the author/maintainer about? Cheers. Baz.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Problems displaying a single message with Mail::Box by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 20, 2001 at 02:47 UTC
The available methods are documented in Mail::Box::Mbox::Message's documentation. You could mail the maintainer about `print $folder->message($num)` not working. `2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas' Segmentation fault 2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$` [download]	[reply] [d/l]