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A few of you may remember my efforts to work around Mozilla's poor
scriptability relative to Eudora. A few months later. I've almost got
the problem licked. The key was using GUI scripting to directly
manipulate Mozilla's menus rather than trying to query the windows for
their contents. Thus, I copy and paste the content I need into
AppleScript. It's an ugly, ugly hack but it works, at least some of the
time.
The final step is to parse the From: and Date: headers out of the raw
message text. This is pretty straight-forward string manipulation, and I
I'm hoping it's obvious to someone. In other words, I have this:
...
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:43:14 -0800 (PST)
From: rlk groups <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
MIME-Version: 1.0
...
I have this complete message stored in a string variable called rawmessage.
I need to extract "rlk groups <email@hidden>" and "Mon, 28 Feb
2005 10:43:14 -0800 (PST)" and store them in new variables.
Regular expressions would make this task easy, but as far as I know (I
could be wrong about this) AppleScript doesn't have these without 3rd
party libraries. Is there any straightforward string operations that
could pull this off?
If there's not, is there an easy way to call out to Perl or some such to
do this work?
And if that's not the case, what's the best cheap regex library for
AppleScript? SatImage?
For what it's worth this does not run unattended. I can afford a quick
and dirty solution that may fail on some corner cases and have to be
manually corrected.
