Hi monks,

I'm having a tiny problem with Mail::Message. I'm trying to feed an email to a perl script (STDIN) that is supposed to put it in a Mail::Message object to be able to manipulate it. After looking at Mail::Message and friends, I came up with the following snippet:

use Mail::Message;

my $s = "Subject: hello\n\n1\n2\n";
my $msg1 = Mail::Message->read(\$s);

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That is supoposed to construct an object from the given scalar ref and throw it in $msg1 but, when I run it, I get the following:

Can't use string ("Mail::Message") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" i
+n use at 
usr/share/perl5/Mail/Message.pm line 853.

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After further investigation, I found the following code in a the module's test suite:

my $scalar = "Subject: hello world\n\nbody1\nbody2\n";
my $msg2 = Mail::Message->read(\$scalar);
ok(defined $msg2);
is(ref $msg2, 'Mail::Message');
ok(defined $msg2->head);
isa_ok($msg2->head, 'Mail::Message::Head');

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I installed Mail::Message using CPAN.pm and all the tests passed ... leading me to think that I'm missing something ?

Can someone enlighten me ?

10x

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holo

In reply to Feeding Mail::Message ... by holo

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