in reply to Re: Chomping most of a _long_ text string
in thread Chomping most of a _long_ text string

You'd better have a limit on that split as well, so that you don't chop up any e-mails that have 70 underscores in it:

(undef, $goodpart) = split /_{70}/, $msg, 2;
Note that since this supposedly is a huge string you create a huge copy while doing this, even if you assign it back to $msg, afaik.

ihb

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