Re: MailBox Question re parsing From, To, CC addresses

Ed,

I think you're overcomplicating by using "$msg->head->get('from')" which 
is asking for the raw fields.  Look in Mail::Message for the "from" 
method, which returns a list of addresses as nice Mail::Address objects, 
already parsed.

I.e.:

my @from = $msg->from();
for my $addr (@from) {
     print "Phrase: ",  $addr->phrase(),  "\n";
     print "Address: ", $addr->address(), "\n";
}

Best of luck,
David Golden

Ed Greenberg wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> When I get an address, as in:
> 
> my @from = $msg->head->get('from');
> 
> and then $from = $from[0];
> 
> I find that $from contains something like:
>     First Last <[email protected]>
> 
> I need to parse out the various pieces of this. I could do it myself, 
> but I can't believe that there isn't a way to do it using MailBox methods.
> 
> When I try this, I came up with:
> 
> my $addr = Mail::Message::Field::Address->parse($from);
> print $addr->address,$/;
> 
> but I get errors like:
> ERROR: Cannot coerce a Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured into a 
> Mail::Message:Field::Address
> 
> So I need to get a more structured object back, rather than a string.
> 
> What's the method that will return To, From, and Cc addresses as objects 
> suitable for parsing?
> 
> Or am I going about this all wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> </edg>