Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep(3)             User Contributed Perl Documentation            Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep(3)



NAME
       Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep - A GNU grep-based mbox folder reader

SYNOPSIS
         #!/usr/bin/perl

         use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser;

         my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail';
         my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename);

         my $folder_reader =
           new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser( {
             'file_name' => $filename,
             'file_handle' => $filehandle,
             'enable_grep' => 1,
           } );

         die $folder_reader unless ref $folder_reader;

         # Any newlines or such before the start of the first email
         my $prologue = $folder_reader->prologue;
         print $prologue;

         # This is the main loop. It's executed once for each email
         while(!$folder_reader->end_of_file());
         {
           my $email = $folder_reader->read_next_email();
           print $email;
         }

DESCRIPTION
       This module implements a GNU grep-based mbox folder reader. It can only be used when GNU grep is installed on the system.
       Users must not instantiate this class directly--use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will
       automatically manage the use of grep and non-grep implementations.

   METHODS AND FUNCTIONS
       The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep package. For additional inherited
       ones, see the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation.

       $ref = new( { 'file_name' => <mailbox file name>, 'file_handle' => <mailbox file handle> });
               <file_name> - The full filename of the mailbox
               <file_handle> - An opened file handle for the mailbox

           The constructor for the class takes two parameters. The file_name parameter is the filename of the mailbox. The
           file_handle argument is the opened file handle to the mailbox.

           Returns a reference to a Mail::Mbox::MessageParser object, or a string describing the error.

BUGS
       No known bugs.

       Contact davidATcoppit.org for bug reports and suggestions.

AUTHOR
       David Coppit <davidATcoppit.org>.

LICENSE
       This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL. See the file "LICENSE" for more information.

HISTORY
       This code was originally part of the grepmail distribution. See http://grepmail.sf.net/ for previous versions of grepmail
       which included early versions of this code.

SEE ALSO
       Mail::Mbox::MessageParser



perl v5.12.0                                               2009-08-09                         Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep(3)