Hi monks.

I was wondering if you could help me today. I'm trying to create an email parser that essentially reads an email and breaks it apart into sets of usable chunks. Neverminding the email portion of it now, I'm trying to get the regex/breaking the data apart logic down first.

The email will look something like.. 

[title] blah blah blah [title]
[tags] tag tag blah blah [tags]
[message]
blah blah blah
red riding hood
runs away from the scary wolf
blah


blah
[message]

#############################################
[title] another one [title]
[tags] more tags [tags]
[message]

another 

message

here
[message]

#############################################
[title] last one [title]
[tags] last one [tags]
[message]

more fun here
[message]

[download]
I'm using the # as the separater and so far I can successfully split the one email into my usable pieces. my @split_msg = split(/#############################################/, $message); That part is good. Now I'm having more problems breaking each thing down to TITLE, TAG and MESSAGE. 
foreach my $email (@split_msg)
{
   my ($title, $tags, $msg);

   $email =~ m/\[title\](.+)\[title\]/i;
   $title = $1;
   $email =~ m/\[message\](.*)\[message\]/i;
   $msg = $2;

   print "$title\n\n$msg\n\n";
}

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The above code keeps saying MSG is uninitialized. It was originall (.+) but I tried (.*) to see if that would make any difference. Each portion (tag, title, message) can contain new lines and I have to capture whatever is in between each of them.

Can you help me figure this one out?

In reply to regex problem by Anonymous Monk

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