<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Alan,<br><br></div>Thanks for your reply. I will probably opt for attaching the reports as pdfs.<br><br></div>Thanks<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-12-26 13:15 GMT-06:00 Alan Mead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amead2@alanmead.org" target="_blank">amead2@alanmead.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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You haven't given us enough information to know where the WS is
going, so any answer is speculative. But if the WS is being removed
and you fix that bug, then if you send the email as HTML with the
text wrapped in PRE tags
("<pre>YOUR-TEXT-GOES-HERE</<wbr>pre>") it should solve this
problem. You could also use HTML tables (this is actually what
they're for) but in order to do so, you would need to parse the
information into cells.<br>
<br>
These solutions may create new problems, like the text may wrap
funny for the recipient. Also, most clients use an ugly serif font
to display text in PRE tags. It's extremely hard to know what an
email is going to look like for the recipient unless you know what
software the recipient uses to read email. Most of us use multiple
devices to read email these days...<br>
<br>
Using MIME::Lite makes it easy to attach files. You could also
attach these details in a format that will render correctly, like
CSV (or lots of other choices, like as an image, PDF, etc.).<br>
<br>
-Alan<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div class="m_7946306362511047664moz-cite-prefix">On 12/26/2016 12:40 PM, Richard Reina
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<div>I have a perl script that reads a flat file and
sends it's contents in a text email via Mime::Lite.
It works great except when there are whitespaces
that need to be preserved for alignment. For
example, If I have the following lines in the flat
file<br>
<br>
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James Brown 123 Washington Ave Philadephia PA<br>
</div>
Kim Smith 12 5th Ave New
York NY<br>
<br>
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In the received email the look like this.<br>
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James Brown 123 Washington Ave Philadephia PA<br>
Kim Smith 12 5th Ave New York NY<br>
<br>
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I have also tried converting the email to HTML which does
not help. Any ideas what approach I should take into order
to get these messages to format correctly?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Richard<br>
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