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| DATE | 2007-11-20 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Website Updates
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Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:08:12PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Ron Guerin wrote:
>> You sure there's a colon there?
>>
>
> There is no colon
In that case, you should be good to go.
>> The best description of an mbox that I was able to turn up in Google,
>> suggests the delimiter you're showing above is invalid.
>>
>> A message encoded in mbox format begins with a From_ line,
>> continues with a series of non-From_ lines, and ends with a
>> blank line. A From_ line means any line that begins with
>> the characters F, r, o, m, space
>>
>> The final line is a completely blank line (no spaces or
>> tabs). Notice that blank lines may also appear elsewhere in
>> the message. If the last line of the message was a partial
>> line, it writes two newlines; otherwise it writes one.
>>
>> The From_ line always looks like From envsender date
>> moreinfo. envsender is one word, without spaces or tabs; it
>> is usually the envelope sender of the message. date is the
>> delivery date of the message. It always contains exactly 24
>> characters in asctime format. moreinfo is optional; it may
>> contain arbitrary information.
>>
>
> That should be the regex.
Note what it says below about corruption in the From_ line in the other
message. This means your regex should only be looking for lines
starting with "f","r","o","m","space" to split the messages out of the
mbox. The other info may or may not be there, or may or may not be in
the correct format. So all that checking you were doing on the address
and date should go away, and that's going to speed things up too. Only
regex for that stuff after you've already determined it's a From_ line,
assuming you even care about that information. But since it doesn't
have to be there, don't put it in the regex you use to split messages
out of the mbox.
> Meanwhile I have a new problem tonight. I have a dead computer
> in the livingroom. The soundcard lost all but two channels, so
> I cleaned the machine and now its not starting. Any clues on
> where to find an ATX mainboard that will accept a Duron 800
> CPU.
Not a clue. I used to love hardware, but it no longer loves me, and the
feeling is mutual.
- Ron
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