Re: How to delete text with replies for archive pages

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 13:26, Will McCullough wrote: > We are writing a web archive to a mail list server. > We want to be able to delete the footer that comes > through on every email so that we don't end up with > those long footers that are 4x repeated sometimes like > in the example here: If everyone followed standards and long established conventions then life would be a breeze. If the signature (ie your footer) is separated from the body by '-- ' (note the space) then standards/conventions compliant clients will automatically strip the signature when needed. The PHP list does correctly use '-- ' when it appends its signature. Unfortunately Yahoo doesn't (probably because it doesn't *want* its signatures stripped so that it becomes advertising for them). > So in this case we want to delete each one of those > lines and the > in front of them. What would be the > best way to do this? Look for the '-- ', otherwise good luck :) -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Chicken Little was right. */