From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 16:10:00 CDT

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:50:00PM +0200, mouss wrote:

> Fabio Viero wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Well, the subject states exactly what i need. I hope the question
> >doesn?t sound "too" dumb. Just for sake i?ll tell once again. I need
> >to identify the end of the header section and the start of the body
> >section of a message. How to do that?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> - at start, you expect headers
> - headers start with the header name followed by ':'
> - headers may be continued: continuation lines start with space
> - as soon as you find a line that doesn't start a header nor continues
> it, you reached the body. Normally, a blank line separates the headers
> and the body, but...
>
>
> "pseudo"-perl code:
>
> $state="headers";
> $header="";
> while (<IN>) {
> chomp;
> # new header
> if (/^(\S+)\s*:/) { # \s* is for robustness...
> $header=$1;
> $value{$header} = $'; # you could trim if you want...
> next;
> }
> # continuation line
> if (/^\s*(.*/)/) {

what is that middle of 3 "/"s for?

> if ($header !~ /\S/) {
> # should not happen...
> last;
> }
> $value{$header} .= $1; # you could trim if you want
> next;
> }
> reached the body section
> $header = "";
> $line = $_;
> last;
> }
>
> here, check if $line is empty, otherwise, consider it part of the body.

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        Viktor.

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