Re: splitting archives into months

#
# Kevin Shrieve wrote:
# >
# > I have a fat archive that I'd like to split up by month, like I see so many
# > others doing. Is there a description somewhere of a procedure to follow,
# > or will I just have to think it through?
#
# This Perl script worked for me. It creates a new output file for each
# month in the mail archive.
#
# while(<>) {
# if (/^From /) {
# $date = substr($_,-21);
# chop $date;
# $mon = substr($date,-4) . "-" . substr($date,0,3);
# if ($omon ne $mon) {
# open(OUT,">$mon") || die "open: $!\n";
# $omon = $mon;
# print "$mon\n";
# }
# }
# print OUT $_;
# }

Nice. I'll save this one in my bag-o-tricks. ;)

Kevin, you'd be better off upgrading to 2.0b3. It is much stabler than 1.02 and has new features you might find useful. In it is a directory named archive/ that has tools to do just what you wanted to do.

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