[X-Unix] Parsing or splitting a text file

[Doug McNutt]

At 15:16 -0400 9/28/05, Richard Nagle wrote:
>What would be the fastest way,
>of splitting a large text document into separate doc,
>via a common identifier "From ???@???"
>
>This From ???@???, is at the top of every email document,
>inside this large single text file.
>this file contains about 15,000 emails.

That sounds like a job for perl.

I was fussing with mailboxes produced by Eudora that look a lot like that. (This list for instance.) I was collecting and sorting by Subject: line to make one file file for each subject. It's been a while since I looked at it.  When I realized I needed to handle "Antwort", "AW", and others I got discouraged.  Ask off line if you'd like a copy of my last known perl script.

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