Have been processing emails via perl for quite sometime, the device which has been creating the emails (with attachments) had a firmware upgrade; since this occurred the From:, To: and Subject: lines have had character encoding on them;
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U2Nhbm5lZCBmcm9tIGVTNDUx?=
 =?ISO-8859-1?B?MS1taWRkbGUgMDgvMTYvMjAw?=
 =?ISO-8859-1?B?NSAxNjowMQ==?=

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Including the newline on the subject... It reads fine in any email client however I am unable to convert this to plaintext the way it was. As I need to extract information from the subject.
I have tried numerous suggestions from sites on the internet; http://www.infocopter.com/perl/utf-8.htm for example. Which just spitout exactly the same 'garble' instead of the plaintext.
Anyone have any idea as to how I can convert this into plain ascii text.

Thanks

In reply to ISO-8859-1 to plain text conversion by adixon

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