On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM, soumya tr <soumya.324@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to extract the last field using extract in exim?
> Suppose the input is:
> "abc@???" <ghi@???>
>
> I need to extract the last field when delimiter is '@'.
> Using ${extract {3}{@}{"abc@???" <ghi@???>}}, I can obtain jkl.com>
> . But i needed a generic solution. As incase there are >3 @ , then the
> obtained output will not be the expected one. How can I achieve this?
Phil Pennock provided a fantastic solution to that a while back:
To get the last:
${reduce{${addresses:$h_from:}}{}{$item}}
To get the first:
${reduce{${addresses:$h_from:}}{}{${if eq{$value}{}{$item}{$value}}}}
http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20110310.173811.9608d368.en.html
...Todd
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