RE: OT: uuencode adding characters

From: Chris Berry <compjma_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:43:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005756EF.20030328104340@fatcity.com>

>From: "Saira Somani" <saira_somani_at_yahoo.com>
>Can you give me a hint? So I use Perl to rid the file of these
>characters and then uuencode it and then use mail utility to send to
>people? Won't uuencode do the same thing again and add those characters
>back?

I haven't used uuencode, but basically what you need to do is:

1) Generate the file
2) Run uuencode
3) Clean it up with perl script
4) Email it

If you want to send me a copy of the uuencoded file, I'd be happy to take a look at it. Your perl code will look something like this:

#!perl

open INPUT_FILE, "<infile.txt";
open OUTPUT_FILE, ">outfile.txt";
while (<INPUT_FILE>) {

    &regex
}
close INPUT_FILE;
close OUTPUT_FILE;

sub regex {
}

Where the regex subroutine will contain the code which finds and eliminates the nasty characters you want to remove. If you're a minimalist, you could probably rewrite the whole thing to be a single inline statement using perl -p -i -e

Chris Berry
compjma_at_hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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