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08-19-2008

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Thanks for the quick response. The email being sent is an automatic email that is sent when one of my order takers enters an order. The email that is sent includes all of the line items that are on the order and it looks like this:

Code:

 
Item Desc Qty Ord Ext Price Required Date Disposition
PRT KE54900 MAGNETIC BASE PROTRACTOR MI 1.00 EA 194.85 
PRT AL535244 2-11/16 5MT HS TS 24" DRILL 1.00 EA 610.60 
NIA 71203 5/8" 4FL HSCO SE 1-5/8LOC 1.00 EA 30.60 
BFL 10-10176 1-14 4FL H4 HAND TAPER 1.00 EA 54.34 
VAL 52286 PT542T 10.00 EA 36.50 
VAL 52332 PT818T 10.00 EA 36.50 
GEN 88CM TUNGSTEN CARBIDE PT SCRIBER 3.00 EA 22.02 
MAF 79000002 82DEG HSS CHATTERLESS 1.00 EA 97.66

(The formatting in this reply isn't quite working...), but essentially each line contains the Item Number, Description, Order Qty, Extended Price, Required Date and Line Disposition. The problem is that the alignment doesn't work because 'padding'/'leading spaces' have been removed by my software application, so the columns do not line up correctly.
So I would need to parse the fields in each line then somehow 'realign' them, possibly with a tab delimteter.

I hope that makes sense, if not, I can try to elaborate further.

Thanks,

Todd

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www::topica::reply

WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Topica::Index - parse a single Topic mailing list index

SYNOPSIS

	   my $index = WWW::Topic::Index->new($index_html);

	   foreach my $message_id ($index->message_ids) {
	       # the mail has some information and also provides a link to the reply ...
	       my $mail  = WWW::Topica::Mail->new($topica->fetch_mail($mess_id), $mess_id);
	       # which has other information (like the un-htmled mail and the email address) ...
	       my $reply = WWW::Topica::Reply->new($topica->fetch_reply($mail->id, $mail->eto), $mail->id, $mail->eto);
	   }

	   print "Next offset is ".$index->next."
";
	   print "Previous offset is ".$index->prev."
";

DESCRIPTION

       Used to parse a single reply page from Topica.com's mailing list indexes.

       Reply pages have the body of the email (albeit quoted) and potentially a full email address.

METHODS

   new <page html> <message id> <eto>
       Takes the html of the page, the eto and the message-id and parses the html.

   parse <html>
       Parse the html to get the subject, email address and body of the email.

   id
       Get the message id

   eto
       Get the message eto

   email
       Get the email address parsed out.

   subject
       Get the email subject parsed out.

   body
       Get the email body parsed out.

AUTHOR

       Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2004, Simon Wistow

perl v5.10.1							    2006-01-03						   WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm)