Breaking spaces

First, thanks for the great class.

I run into problems with spaces in the original e-mail being changed into a newline character. I am trying to reverse the process to restore the original text. Is this a charset encoding problem? Has anyone else ran into this issue?

I am not sure what you mean. Can you give an example script and sample message that exhibits the problem?

Here is a good example, You will see the last part of the line "- CX" gets changed into "-[line feed]CX" So the space was replaced with a line feed.
Here is the original e-mail in the e-mail editor: Outlook 2003

approved
_____________________________________________
From: Winowich, Kurt
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:05 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Approve: Holcomb - CX


"\\corpusfs16\CMMRCLMASOEAST\SA Review\MidAtlantic\Clariion\Holcomb - CX"

Approve:





here is the raw e-mail how exim passed it to my program:

From: [email protected]
Received: from CORPUSMX60C.corp.domain.com ([]) by corpussmtp3.corp.domain.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:07:13 -0400
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: FW: Approve: Holcomb - CX
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:07:11 -0400
Message-ID: <CCBE80B1DA4ABB4CB1BBD0097C49E296037328AA@CORPUSMX60C.corp.domain.com>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
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To: <[email protected]>
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approved
_____________________________________________
From: Winowich, Kurt=20
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:05 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Approve: Holcomb - CX


"\\corpusfs16\CMMRCLMASOEAST\SA Review\MidAtlantic\Clariion\Holcomb -
CX"

Approve:

the thing is that when Outlook receives this e-mail it displays the e-mail correctly. So outlook is able to reverse the process. I found that if a line is over 72 characters and it contains a space, the last space in the line will be changed to a linefeed. I wrote a loop to try and fix the problem but it has to possibility of catching false positives. Here is the script:

$lines = explode("\n",$message);

for($i=0;$i<count($lines)-1;$i++) {
$next_line = explode(" ",$lines[$i+1]);
$count = strlen($lines[$i]);

if( $count < 73 && ($count + strlen($next_line[0])) > 71) {
$message_fixed .= $lines[$i] . ' ' . $lines[$i+1];
$i++;
}
else {
$message_fixed .= $lines[$i] . "\n";
}
}
if($i < count($lines) ) {
$message_fixed .= $lines[$i];
}

I think you need to upload the example file somewhere because pasting it here may change the real message format.