Re: Help with collecting data from an e-mail

Jack, This does not anser your e-mail question but may be of interest to you. It was posted to the php list a while back. --David Perry On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Jack Lauman wrote: > I'm trying to read an e-mail, ignore the headers, and extract 6 pieces > of information. If I manually delete all the header and trailer info > the code below works fine. However there is a new email on a daily > basis and I can't figure out how to tell php to scan the file ignore > to junk and grab what I want. > > <---e-mail snip---> > > <I need to ignore all the header info and extract the date and time > from the line below> > > Rates as of 1999.06.18 13:10:06 UTC (GMT). Base currency is USD. > > <I need to ignore the next tow lines and begin extracting the four > fields beginning on the third line and continue to the message trailer > which also needs to be ignored> > > Currency Unit USD/Unit Units/USD > ================================ =================== > =================== > USD United States Dollars 1.00000 > 1.00000 > EUR Euro 1.04049