Re^3: Annoying whitespace(s)...

[DamnDirtyApe]

Corion's analysis was bang-on (yes, this really is horrible code.) One more suggestion - take this script, and rewrite it using Template Toolkit to generate the content and MIME::Lite to manage the email. You'd probably cut the script to a third the length it is now, and you'd be amazed how much more readable and maintainable it would be.

Just my $0.02,

[reaction]

Thanks, I wanted to try to keep this simple...

R

[Rhys]

I don't know anything myself about templating - another one of those programming tools I'll have to learn at some point - but I took a quick look at MIME::Lite just now, and it will make your script simpler, not more complicated.

mybox# perl -eshell -MCPAN
cpan> install MIME::Lite
...buncha installation messages...
cpan> exit
mybox# exit
mybox> perldoc MIME::Lite

Very cool stuff, and pretty easy to use. With Perl, if you can find a module on CPAN that does something for you, it's often best to install and learn that module, rather than code it yourself. Since you appear to have a C background, think of modules as installing a bunch of .h files with some easy-to-use functions.

--J