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Mail::Address(3User Contributed Perl DocumentatioMail::Address(3)

NAME
       Mail::Address - Parse mail addresses

SYNOPSIS
	   use Mail::Address;

	   my @addrs = Mail::Address->parse($line);

	   foreach $addr (@addrs) {
	       print $addr->format,"\n";
	   }

DESCRIPTION
       Mail::Address extracts and manipulates RFC822 compilant
       email addresses. As well as being able to create
       Mail::Address objects in the normal manner, Mail::Address
       can extract addresses from the To and Cc lines found in an
       email message.

CONSTRUCTORS
       new( PHRASE,  ADDRESS, [ COMMENT ])

	    Mail::Address->new("Perl5 Porters", "perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com");

	   Create a new Mail::Address object which represents an
	   address with the elements given. In a message these 3
	   elements would be seen like:

	    PHRASE <ADDRESS> (COMMENT)
	    ADDRESS (COMMENT)

       parse( LINE )

	    Mail::Address->parse($line);

	   Parse the given line a return a list of extracted
	   Mail::Address objects.  The line would normally be one
	   taken from a To,Cc or Bcc line in a message

METHODS
       phrase ()
	   Return the phrase part of the object.

       address ()
	   Return the address part of the object.

       comment ()
	   Return teh comment part of the object

       format ()
	   Return a string representing the address in a suitable
	   form to be placed on a To,Cc or Bcc line of a message

16/Feb/1998	       perl 5.005, patch 03			1

Mail::Address(3User Contributed Perl DocumentatioMail::Address(3)

       name ()
	   Using the information contained within the object
	   attempt to identify what the person or groups name is

       host ()
	   Return the address excluding the user id and '@'

       user ()
	   Return the address excluding the '@' and the mail
	   domain

       path ()
	   Unimplemented yet but should return the UUCP path for
	   the message

       canon ()
	   Unimplemented yet but should return the UUCP canon for
	   the message

AUTHOR
       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1995-7 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

16/Feb/1998	       perl 5.005, patch 03			2

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