[X4U] Extracting data from an email

[Nick Scalise]

On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Andy wrote:

> I want to extract some data from emails sent from a shopping cart.  
> The data will be something like Product: xxxx
> Order No: xxxx, Name: xxxx, Address: xxxx etc.
> The emails will arrive as either html or plain text. I want to be  
> able to automatically extract this data and insert it into a  
> Filemaker database.
> I know I can run a script from a Rule in Mail or Entourage to save/ 
> export the emails as plain text but how to get the data into a form  
> that Filemaker can use?
> Or is there some other way of doing this?
>
> Any help from you guys would be really appreciated.


You could create a Text Factory in BBEdit that will manipulate text  
the way you want.

This could also be done in Terminal.app, using shell scripts. However,  
I am not familiar with that method.
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Nick Scalise
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