how to extract parts of text ?

[Anon]

hi,

basically i am trying to extract the attachments encoded in UUENCODE. the attachments are embedded in the body of the email with a "begin" and an "end". here is a sample:

---

begin 600 ATT00000.html
M/"%$3T-465!%($A434P@4%5"3E#"(M+R],T,O+T14....
...
...
end

begin 600 ATT00001.html
's;df'sdkf;lsdk;flx/lckjv;sdfgdg+T14....
...
...
end

how would i go about extracting these attachments with basic php functions?

(here is a link to a function to decode UUENCODE encoded text:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.86/lngWId.8/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm )

[Anon]

Well, just something slapped down to keyboard. It needs some work (i.e. you might want to retrieve filenames, uudecode it etc). This should, however, give you the basic idea.

The function, as you can see, returns an array starting at index 1. So $returnVar[1] will be the data between the first begin .. end, and $returnVar[2] between the second etc.

Could probably be optimized as well ;]

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function splitAttachments($mailBody) {
$attData = array();
$attCount = 1;
$storeData = 0;

foreach (explode("\n", $mailBody) AS $key => $val) {
if (substr($val, 0, 5) == 'begin') {
$storeData = 1; continue;
}
if (substr($val, 0, 3) == 'end') {
$storeData = 0; $attCount++; continue;
}
if ($storeData) $attData[$attCount] .= $val . "\n";
}
if ($storeData) {
print "Bewm";
exit();
}
return $attData;

}