2009/7/15 Areba Collins <arebacollins@xxxxxxxxx> > Hello guys, i have a quick one: > > Im working on an app that reads email and converts it into a post on a > forum, everything works fine except the threaded comments at the > bottom. I would like to delete everything that is from a previous > email (which usually begins with on this ate, so and so wrote : and > then comments preceeded by >> > > Does anyone know a straightforward function to accomplish this? > > Regards, > Collins -Nairobi KE. > > -- > If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples > then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea > and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will > have two ideas. > > George Bernard Shaw > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > How about marking the email as read and not deleting it. Compare following emails to previous read emails and strip out any common text and strip out "> " and any other common indentation, etc.