[plug] Working with Mbox files

[Denis Brown]

At 10:07 AM 4/09/2008, Nathan Alberti wrote:
>On 04/09/2008, at 12:25 AM, Keith Bawden wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 00:27, Nathan Alberti <nalberti at gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>>Is there an appropriate library or convert it to something like
>>>Unix time
>>>and use arithmetic  ?
>>
>>Which language are you using?
>>
>>I use ruby for my mail munging (not mbox sorry - maildir). If you are
>>going to use ruby then this might help you out:
>>
>>ri time
>>ri Date
>
>I don't really have any exposure to ruby.. Perl would be my preference.


May not be exactly what you're after but could give you *some* pointers???
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/157437/

Regards,
Denis