Suggestions?

James Shaker wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to use "you all" as a sounding board for a project I am
> working on, if that is ok?
>
> We have developed a machine that will be deployed in a few thousand
> locations around the US, Puerto Rico, and Bahamas. This product will be
> connected to a phone line and will call a linux server that we set up as
> a PPP dial in server. Once connected, the product will send a small
> email detailing production amounts and status information. The machine
> will also receive an email, if any, for parameter changes, etc. This
> all works well.
>
> Once the server receives the email I want to parse that information and
> put it into MySql. The status of these machines can be viewed via the
> web using apache and PHP4.
>
> What I would like some advice on, what is the better method of parsing
> the email and putting it into MySql?
>
> Its not that I don't have many options... I have too many.
>
> Procmail -> awk/sed -> PHP4 script -> MySql
>
> Perl -> MySql
>
> And many other combination of tools. I am leaning towards a Perl ->
> MySql solution for the simplicity; however, I want to know if anyone
> else has something that might be better. Perhaps Python?
>
> Thank "you all" for your time,

well... any of thous would be good, and so would Spirit++ (a c++
template library which replaces most of the functunality of Yacc and Lex
(or Bison and Flex for the GNU crowd). It is availible on sourceforge.

EBo --