Applescript to count certain things in a mail folder.

You're so right. Here it is. As you can see I can't even begin to
figure out how to scan through the message text and locate the lines I
need, and then sort the label from the value I want. The comments left
in are remnants of my pseudocode.

(*
script to grab the necessary values from the old survey data found in
a folder
*)
set theMessages to {}
set tmpData to ""
set theDataText to ""

tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to the selection
repeat with i from 1 to the number of items in theMessages
(* !! locate the line that begins "Organization Name:" and snatch
all text from beyond that to the end of the line, stick it in tmpData
*)
set tmpData to tmpData + ", " (* adding delimiter *)
(* !! locate the line that begins w/ "Voter's IP:" and snatch all
text from beyond that to the end of the line and likewise stick it in
tmpData*)
set theDataText to theDataText & {tmpData} & "
" (* adding newline to the file for the next time*)
end repeat

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set theDataText2 to theDataText as text
set the clipboard to theDataText2
end tell

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>
> There isn't enough there to critique. You haven't shown how you access
> the message, for one thing.

Indeed; that's because the ten dozen things I've tried have not
worked.

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