Adding content from mail to Excel using Applescript

Solution 1:

Correct code below for interest.

--APPLESCRIPT
_main()
on _main()
    set mm to {}
    tell application "Mail"
        repeat with m in (get selection)
            set mm's end to m's content & linefeed
        end repeat
    end tell
    set r to my _retrieve_data(mm)
    do shell script "printf '%s' " & r's quoted form & " > ~/desktop/$(date +list_%F_%H%M%S.csv)"
    return r
end _main

on _retrieve_data(mm)
    (*
        list mm : list of message text
    *)
    script o
        property pp : mm
        property qq : {}
        property rr : {}
        property boundary : do shell script "uuidgen" without altering line endings -- UUID & LF
        property batch : 50 -- number of messages to be processed at once; combined text should not exceed ca. 200K

        -- divide messages into batches
        repeat with i from 1 to count my pp by batch
            set j to i + batch - 1
            if j > (count my pp) then set j to -1
            set my qq's end to my pp's items i thru j
        end repeat

        -- retrieve data per batch
        repeat with q in my qq
            set my rr's end to do shell script "perl -CSDA -w <<'EOF' - " & boundary's quoted form & "
use strict;
local $\\ = qq(\\n);
local $, = qq(,);

my $boundary = shift;
my @data = ();
my ($new, $complete, $i, $j) = (1, 0, -1, 0);
while (<DATA>) {
    next if ! ($new ||= $_ =~ /^$boundary$/) && $complete;
    if ( $new ) {
        ($new, $complete) = (0, 0);
        ++$i;
    }

/^From:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o         && do { $data[$i]{from}     = $1; $j=0; next; };
/^Gender:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o       && do { $data[$i]{gender}   = $1; $j=0; next; };
/^Age:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o          && do { $data[$i]{age}      = $1; $j=0; next; };
/^Mobile:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o       && do { $data[$i]{mobile}   = $1; $j=0; next; };
/^Phone Day:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o    && do { $data[$i]{phoneday} = $1; $j=0; next; };
/^Email:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o        && do { $data[$i]{email}    = $1; $j=0; next; };

    /^Address:\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o      && do { $data[$i]{address1} = $1; $j=1; next; };
    $j == 1 && /^\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o   && do { $data[$i]{address2} = $1; $j++; next; };
    $j == 2 && /^\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o   && do { $data[$i]{address3} = $1; $j++; next; };
    $j == 3 && /^\\s*(.+?)\\s*$/o   && do { $data[$i]{address4} = $1; $j++; next; };


/^I would like to be kept up to date on future Eden events, competitions and special offers\\s*$/o  
                                    && do { $data[$i]{eden}     = '1'; $j=0; next; };
    /^I would like to be kept up to date on future Kuoni events, competitions and special offers\\s*$/o
                                    && do { $data[$i]{kuoni}    = '1'; $j=0; next; };

$complete = (0 + keys %{$data[$i]} == 12);
}

my @keys = ('from','gender','age','mobile','phoneday','email','address1','address2','address3','address4','eden','kuoni');
print map { s/\"/\"\"/og; qq(\"$_\") } @keys;

for (@data) {
    print map { $_ = '' unless defined $_; s/\"/\"\"/og; qq(\"$_\") } @{$_}{@keys};
}
__END__
" & _join(q, boundary) & "
EOF" without altering line endings
        end repeat

        -- combine data from each batch
        set r to my rr's item 1 -- include header
        repeat with i from 2 to count my rr -- exclude header for rest
            set r to r & my rr's item i's text from paragraph 2 to text -1
        end repeat
        return r
    end script
    tell o to run
end _retrieve_data

on _join(tt, d)
    (*
        list tt : source list
        string d : separator
        return string : tt joined with d
    *)
    local astid0, t
    try
        set {astid0, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {} & d}
        set t to "" & tt
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid0
    on error errs number errn
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid0
        error errs number errn
    end try
    return t
end _join
--END OF APPLESCRIPT