From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T03:36:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract data from email - Tmail, Hpricot

George Cooper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an html email that I would like to parse.
> 
> The problem I'm having is removing all html tags and getting past the
> header information. Then I want to extract all the information per row
> to put into a database.
> 
> the email is pasted here: http://pastie.textmate.org/265259
> 
> I have tried Tmail, but can't seem to extract just the body.  Then I
> tried Hpricot and wasn't sure what to use before the .inner_html. So
> basically I'm very lost on where to start.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

It would help if you posted some code that didn't work, so people can 
have a better idea of what you're trying to do.  Tmail should have been 
able to parse that without problem, however, extracting the body is 
easy.  The box follows the empty line.  You could use something like 
split, but duping such huge strings could be slow.  When you read the 
mail, try to read a line at a time until you get the empty line, then 
read the rest into a buffer for hpricot.

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