Continuing to try to learn stream parsing

[mwra (Mark Anderson)]

I’ve added a more generalised answer to the above in a new thread:

On text stream parsing

This thread expands a general issue arising in thread: I’ve started a new thread to de-interleave the general point from the specific use case discussed there. I think a confusion at the start here is the starting design logic of stream parsing. The easiest example is a plain-text email message. The sender is stored on one line, after a From: starting marker. There is one To: marker for a line with the recipient(s). One Subject: subject line, etc. We know, because the format is fixed th…

That should allow this thread to stay on the narrower topic of the example at hand.