Hi PerlMonks,

I am using MIME::Tools to read an email which is piped to my script, All is working great, except getting the body of the message, I'm sure I'm missing something simple but im not sure what - I have been through all the man pages for the mime-tools with no luck.. here is some of my code, which i use to get the subject etc, and the body...which isnt working :( 
$parser = new MIME::Parser;
   $parser->ignore_errors(1);
   $parser->output_to_core(1);
   my $MIME_entity = $parser->parse(\*STDIN);
   my $error = ($@ || $parser->last_error);
   $header = $MIME_entity->head;
   $subject = $header->get('Subject'); 
   <...snip..>
   $body = $MIME_entity->body;

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And here is the value of $body: 
ARRAY(0x84f4fec)

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If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be very appreciated. Warm Regards.

In reply to Using MIME::Tools by Anonymous Monk

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