rewriting the getname() function again

From: Daniel Stenberg <dast_at_sth.frontec.se_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:28:47 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904131715560.10632-300000_at_metal.sth.frontec.se>

Hi

I'm aware that the name/email parser in hypermail is still very lame. I wrote a new one a few versions ago, but I definitely had the wrong approach and just made another bad and buggy implementation.

I attach two files for test and comments. One is my test-parser (C source) and the other one is a file filled with From:-lines that may appear.

I would be very interested to hear from you if you can get it to fail on a From: line that may appear.

If you have improvements or have a better parser, feel free to submit changes, suggestions and ideas!

The fromparse.c program outputs a few different lines. They use prefixes that mean:

• IN: shows the header it parses right now FOUND: if () or <> words were found USE: explains how a particular part was found

EMAIL:		the parsed email address field
COMMENT:	the parsed comment (name) field
--FAILED:	if you see this, the parser failed to get a comment or email!
--
             Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast

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Received on Fri 16 Apr 1999 02:48:52 PM GMT