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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input
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"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<cKV99.1695$Fc4.326481@news.xtra.co.nz>...
> "Kevin Cline" <kcline17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ba162549.0208221236.3ed08fd4@posting.google.com...
> 
> > So I am holding to my statement.  Perl excels for simple
> > text filtering applications
> 
> Hmmm, seems like "simple" above is the keyword.
> Sure you can write a throw-away code in, say,
> SQL to check or count or verify something.
> That's hardly a serious argument to use SQL
> in place of <<your favorite language here>>

It's silly to argue that any ONE language is best for
every problem.  The OP's problem, partially encrypting and 
forwarding E-mail, is relatively easy in Perl, and if the OP
is going to be needing solutions to similar problems in the future,
he could save a lot of time by learning Perl.