NAME Data::Message - Parse and Reconstruct RFC2822 Compliant Messages SYNOPSIS use Data::Message; my $message = Data::Message->new(join('',<>), fold => 1); print $message->header("Customer-ID"); print $message->body; DESCRIPTION This module is a generic interface to dealing with RFC2822 compliant messages. Email is the most common example of messages in this format, but not the only one. HTTP requests and responses are also sent and received in this format. Many other systems rely on storing or sending information with a header of key/value pairs followed by an optional body. Because "Email::Simple" is so good at parsing this format, and so fast, this module inherits from it. Changes to the interface are only prevelant in options provided to the constructor "new()". For any other interface usage documentation, please see Email::Simple. Because "Data::Message" is a subclass of "Email::Simple", its mixins will work with this package. For example, you may use "Email::Simple::Creator" to aid in the creation of "Data::Message" objects from scratch. new() my $message = Data::Message->new(join( '', <> ), fold => 1, grouchy => 1); The first argument is a scalar value containing the text of the payload to be parsed. Subsequent arguments are passed as key/value pairs. "fold", which is false by default, will tell "Data::Message" if it should fold headers. If given a true value, headers longer than 78 characters will be folded. "grouchy", which is false by default, will instruct "Data::Message" to complain loudly if non-ascii characters are used as header names, when setting headers via "header_set()". If "grouchy" is true, calls to "header_set()" should be wrapped in "eval" as they may die. SEE ALSO Email::Simple, Email::Simple::Creator, Email::Simple::Headers, perl. AUTHOR Casey West, . COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.