Hi PerlMonks, I've got a knotty problem with the MIME::Parser. When extracting a text-file attachment from an email it puts in extra ^M characters on Windows (expected behavior which is spoken of in the documentation).

My question is: is there a means of getting around this behavior, by manually tweaking a setting? Or if necessary, somewhere to tweak or subclass the code (not ideal given that I'm not *that* great with perl).

Example of the code I'm using (the email is already written to file - that section of code appears to be working perfectly given that I can extract .jpg and .csv attachments without problems):

...
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_dir("unpacking");
$parser->parse_open("receiving/message-1.msg");
...
[download]

When used with a .csv file it comes out perfectly. Rename the .csv file to a .txt file and resend, the extracted file has the extra ^M's on the end of each line.

Your thoughts and hints will be most appreciated.

Cheers!
William

PS: I'm using ActiveState's ActivePerl, version 5.16.3, built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread. The binary build is: 1603 [296746].

PPS: In case it is relevant or you're interested, here is the appropriate MIME-part of the two saved message files:

(.csv)

------_=_NextPart_001_01CF26C0.66530897
Content-Type: application/x-msexcel;
    name="stuff.csv"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: stuff.csv
Content-Disposition: attachment;
    filename="stuff.csv"

YSxiLGMsZCxlDQphLGIsY2MsZGQsZWVlDQphYSxiYmIsY2NjYyxkZGRkZCxlZWVlZWUNCg
+==

------_=_NextPart_001_01CF26C0.66530897--
[download]

...and...

(.txt)

------_=_NextPart_001_01CF26C0.A0C3FDAB
Content-Type: text/plain;
    name="stuff.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: stuff.txt
Content-Disposition: attachment;
    filename="stuff.txt"

YSxiLGMsZCxlDQphLGIsY2MsZGQsZWVlDQphYSxiYmIsY2NjYyxkZGRkZCxlZWVlZWUNCg
+==

------_=_NextPart_001_01CF26C0.A0C3FDAB--
[download]

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