Hi Monks,
I'm a newbie to Perl. I seek the wisdom from you for the following problem:

I want to parse the incoming emails. These emails have three attachments. First I assumed that the email attachments are in the format of text/html
but later found that the attachments are in ".mhtml" format.
I wrote a script which parses the email, gets the attachment names and writes the content-type into a /tmp file

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use MIME::Parser;
use File::Basename;

use strict;

# derive the base filenames of extracted parts from
# the name of the script. 
my ($parsed) = (basename($0))[0];

#Create a Parser object
my $parser = MIME::Parser->new();

# output directory for parsed files
$parser->output_dir("/tmp");

# Basenames for parsed files
$parser->output_prefix($parsed);

$parser->output_to_core();

open(INPUT, "/tmp/email-test/AuthenticationReport.msg") or die("Input 
+error: $!");

my $entity = $parser->read(\*INPUT)
    or die "couldn't parse MIME stream";
close(INPUT);

# Tell us about the MIME entities! this is for debugging

$entity->dump_skeleton;
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Running the above script results in a /tmp file with the following results:

------=_Part_64_24417480.1094663686411
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

------=_Part_64_24417480.1094663686411
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; 
        name=User_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_45_DAY20
+04-9-8_18.mhtml
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-Disposition: attachment; 
        filename=User_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_45_D
+AY2004-9-8_18.mhtml

------=_Part_64_24417480.1094663686411
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; 
        name=Admin_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_45_DAY2
+004-9-8_18.mhtml
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-Disposition: attachment; 
        filename=Admin_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_45_
+DAY2004-9-8_18.mhtml

------=_Part_64_24417480.1094663686411
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; 
        name=Disabled_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_45_D
+AY2004-9-8_18.mhtml
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-Disposition: attachment; 
        filename=Disabled_Logins_UnitDaily_Test_User_09_08_2004_10_14_
+45_DAY2004-9-8_18.mhtml


------=_Part_64_24417480.1094663686411--
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Moving on, I want to parse the three attachments and the data within them and insert the data into the database (Oracle).
The data within the email attachment comes in a fixed format which will like something like below
The following is a sample for the attachment "Disabled_Logins_UnitDaily...."

            Cisco Reports
            -------------
        Scheduled report for Cisco at IP
        address 18.187.12.10(Test1 - 0002321)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Disabled Logins for 2004-10-02

        Time        Address
        10.10.58    18.188.10.12
        10.12.34    17.199.13.100
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IF there is not activity then the attachment displays "No Data" instead of "Time" and "Address".
The fields that I essentially need to extract are the IP address in the title, Date, Time and Address
Can anyone let me know how do I parse a ".mhtml" attachment and extract the required data.

Thanks well in advance.

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