Email::MIME::ContentType(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Email::MIME::ContentType(3pm)

NAME

       Email::MIME::ContentType - Parse a MIME Content-Type Header

VERSION

       version 1.013

	 $Id: /my/pep/Email-MIME-ContentType/trunk/lib/Email/MIME/ContentType.pm 31133 2007-03-22T19:52:26.296283Z rjbs  $

SYNOPSIS

	 use Email::MIME::ContentType;

	 # Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
	 my $ct = 'text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed';
	 my $data = parse_content_type($ct);

	 $data = {
	   discrete   => "text",
	   composite  => "plain",
	   attributes => {
	     charset => "us-ascii",
	     format  => "flowed"
	   }
	 };

FUNCTIONS

       parse_content_type

       This routine is exported by default.

       This routine parses email content type headers according to section 5.1 of RFC 2045. It returns a hash as above, with entries for the dis-
       crete type, the composite type, and a hash of attributes.

WARNINGS

       This is not a valid content-type header, according to both RFC 1521 and RFC 2045:

	 Content-Type: type/subtype;

       If a semicolon appears, a parameter must.  "parse_content_type" will carp if it encounters a header of this type, but you can suppress this
       by setting $Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS to a false value.  Please consider localizing this assignment!

PERL EMAIL PROJECT

       This module is maintained by the Perl Email Project.

       <http://emailproject.perl.org/wiki/Email::MIME::ContentType>

AUTHOR

       Casey West, "casey@geeknest.com" Simon Cozens, "simon@cpan.org"

SEE ALSO

       Email::MIME

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01					     Email::MIME::ContentType(3pm)