I'm using a script which processes emails from paypals ipn and adds the sender to a mailing list. In the body of the email that is being sent there is a "first_name" field we want to use this to get the senders name. The following bit of code tries to get the name (this is where i'm stuck, I'm assuming its trying to get the name from the 'from name' in the email address) but its putting the senders email in the name field, can I make it get the name from the "first_name" field in the body of the email?

thanks

Mike
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# check for name spaces

$spos = index($thestr,' ');
if($spos>=0) { $justmail = ''; } else { $justmail = 1; }

if($justmail ne 1){
# get name
$name = substr($thestr,0,$lbpos-14);
# strip quotes
$name =~ s/\"//g;

$spos = index($name,' ');
if($spos>=0){
$fn = substr($name,0,$spos);
$ln = substr($name,$spos+1,length($name)-$spos-1);
} else {
$fn = $name; $ln = '';
}
}