Any help on this poser would be most appreciated

I am trying to use Mail::Internet to split an inbound email on STDIN into it's body and header parts so I can store what I need in a database.

I can deal with the header no probs but the body part is driving me up the wall, even though the documentation makes it sound simple.

The 'body' method should be a reference to an array containing the lines of the message body. Here is a sub I knocked up to parse the message. 

sub parse_message {
    
    $message = new Mail::Internet \*STDIN;
    $sender = $message->head->get("From");
    @content = $message->body();
    $content = join('\n',@content);

}

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All I get in $content or @content is something like ARRAY(0x8217224);

I know I'm probably overlooking something very basic here, can anybody help?

Many thanks

In reply to Mail::Internet question by Anonymous Monk

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