This response assumes the portion you want to remove is always on the line immediately after the signature designator.

## Assumes that name of file is in $messagename. Could 
## easily be put in a sub and used that way. 
open (MESSAGE, $messagename) or die "Couldn't open email:$!\n";

while (<MESSAGE>){
    # Test for the signature line
    if (/^--$/) {
        #get rid of the next line by reading it in. 
       <MESSAGE>;
    } else {
    print $_;
    }
}

close MESSAGE or die "Couldn't close message:$!\n";

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This may not be the most efficient code in the world, but it will get the job done -- it would be used by taking an input file and piping to an output file.

It's possible that someone can come up with a better solution by modifying $/ and then using a substitution to find that particular block that you wish to rid yourself of, but I'm simply not clever enough to do that tonight

In reply to Re: Removing Signature from Email by Wodin
in thread Removing Signature from Email by HTTP-404

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