[X-Unix] Parsing or splitting a text file

[Richard Nagle]

exactly, and the subject, would be the name of each new text file...

Richard


Doug McNutt wrote:
> 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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