Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2009-08-09 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep - A GNU grep-based mbox folder reader

SYNOPSIS

   #!/usr/bin/perl
 
   use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser;
 
   my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail';
   my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename);
 
   my $folder_reader =
     new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser( {
       'file_name' => $filename,
       'file_handle' => $filehandle,
       'enable_grep' => 1,
     } );
 
   die $folder_reader unless ref $folder_reader;
 
   # Any newlines or such before the start of the first email
   my $prologue = $folder_reader->prologue;
   print $prologue;
 
   # This is the main loop. It's executed once for each email
   while(!$folder_reader->end_of_file());
   {
     my $email = $folder_reader->read_next_email();
     print $email;
   }
 
 

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a GNU grep-based mbox folder reader. It can only be used when GNU grep is installed on the system. Users must not instantiate this class directly---use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will automatically manage the use of grep and non-grep implementations.

METHODS AND FUNCTIONS

The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep package. For additional inherited ones, see the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation.
$ref = new( { 'file_name' => <mailbox file name>, 'file_handle' => <mailbox file handle> });
     <file_name> - The full filename of the mailbox
     <file_handle> - An opened file handle for the mailbox
 
 

The constructor for the class takes two parameters. The file_name parameter is the filename of the mailbox. The file_handle argument is the opened file handle to the mailbox.

Returns a reference to a Mail::Mbox::MessageParser object, or a string describing the error.

BUGS

No known bugs.

Contact david@coppit.org for bug reports and suggestions.

AUTHOR

David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.

LICENSE

This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL. See the file ``LICENSE'' for more information.

HISTORY

This code was originally part of the grepmail distribution. See http://grepmail.sf.net/ for previous versions of grepmail which included early versions of this code.

SEE ALSO

Mail::Mbox::MessageParser