RE: Decode e-mail?

Thanks Scott! I think you answered all my questions. To fill you in a tiny bit 
more, these e-mails are incoming press releases that I'm trying to get into the 
database (which is NOT a problem), but with the formatting retained (since most 
are HTML and I want to keep them that way...not to be interpreted, just to be 
displayed). It looks like translating quoted-printable is no biggie, so I'll 
start on that, but I have no idea what other sort of translation or 
transformation issues I'll run into (and of course didn't see this one coming). 
The devil indeed resides within the details!

Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:08 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Decode e-mail?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Zak,
> 
> > Before I dive into this, with your experience and knowledge in this
> > area, would you say I'm heading into a tough battle here 
> and should find
> > existing code to somehow "retrieve" the mail item all 
> sorted out, or is
> > this a reasonable search-and-replace exercise?
> 
> I'm not completely sure what you're doing with the e-mail, so 
> it's hard to
> say whether it's going to be a "tough battle."
> 
> IMHO, decoding quoted-printable isn't that big of a deal...  just read
> lines at a time from the file into a big buffer until one of the lines
> does not end with =, or until the buffer is full.  Then, scan 
> character by
> character through the buffer looking for =, and when it's 
> found, replace
> with the appropriate value.  I'd do all of this in ASCII, and then
> translate the whole buffer to EBCDIC in one go at the end w/iconv(). 
  
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