Ah! I see now - you're getting rid of the semicolon and everything that follows, so you're only left with text/plain or text/html. I see. :)

Any ideas why it only returns the plain text portion, and no html? 

sub get_text_parts {
    my @parts = shift->parts;
    my %ct;

#    $ct{$_->content_type} = $_ for @parts;

    for (@parts) {
        (my $c = $_->content_type) =~ s/;.+//;
#    print "\nDEBUG: $c\n";
        $ct{$c} = $_;
    }

    return $ct{'text/plain'} if exists $ct{'text/plain'};
    return $ct{'text/html'} if exists $ct{'text/html'};
    return $parts[0] if $which =~ /text/; 
    return $parts[1] if $which =~ /html/;
}

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outputs: 

$ ./grab.pl mime4 html
line1
line2
line3

$ ./grab.pl mime4 text
line1
line2
line3
$

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I really appreciate you taking the time to help out, thanks a lot :)

In reply to Re^6: MIME voodoo. by vxp
in thread MIME voodoo. by vxp

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