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| DATE | 2007-11-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Website Updates
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:23:05PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 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.
>
OK
I've reworked the program and put some cheates into it by seperating the
headers out. First, we have the line in the headers that says
Line: some number
That will let me glob in the majority of the messages. In the process,
I've actually simplified greatly the code.
I also simlified the regex for the From line
The code is now at
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/prog.html
I'll get a chance to review it later, but you can take a look and give me
any thoughts you might have.
Ruben
> >> 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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