Subject: search and replace confusion
What I'm trying to do with the following code is convert
some iCal files so that a specific application will read
them.
The problem is that this application can't deal with
entries that have a date but no time.
(Full examples below.) For example, if I have a
DTSTART:20050616
in the file, I want to convert it to:
DTSTART:20050616T070000Z
But with my code below this line prints as:
T070000Z20050616
overwriting instead of appending the time value.
It seems like this should be simple, and because
of that I'm getting kind of frustrated with this
-- damn it I should be able to do this.
I've tried several different things and they all
overwrite instead of append.
I've tried:
s/$/T070000Z\n/;
my $startline=$ . "T070000Z\n";
and
my $startline= join "",$_,"T070000Z\n";
And get the same results with each of them.
My code:
(the last stanza, where I append a ",*" is because
I'm also trying to convert the data to a public
calendar too. But it does the same thing, overwrites
the beginning of the line instead of appending.)
#!/usr/bin/perl
# convert
# usage: convert <filenames>
use warnings;
use strict;
foreach my $argnum (0 .. $#ARGV){
my $inputfile = $ARGV[$argnum];
open FILE, '<', $inputfile or die "Cannot open $inputfile: $!";
while ( <FILE> ) {
chomp $_;
if (/DTSTART:/) {
my $startline= $_ . "T070000Z\n";
print $startline;
}
elsif (/DTEND:/) {
s/$/T170000Z\n/;
print $_;
}
elsif (/X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:/) {
my $ownerline = join "", $_, ",*\n"/;
print $ownerline;
}
else {
print $_."\n";
}
}
close FILE;
}
Sample data:
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:sm_cal_evt_20050523T201350Z_example_com
SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20050523T201350Z
CREATED:20050523T201350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20050523T201350Z
STATUS:
DTSTART:20050616
SUMMARY:Someguy - PTO
DESCRIPTION:
COMMENT:
DTEND:20050616
X-SQ-EVTDOMAIN:zeffert_com
X-SQ-EVTCREATOR:mikeprice
X-SQ-EVTLASTUPDATOR:someguy
X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:kodak,someguy
X-SQ-EVTREADABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTWRITEABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTPARENTCALENDARS:sm_cal_20050401T193810Z_example_com
END:VEVENT
Maybe ...
$_ .= 'T070000Z' if (/^DTSTART:\d{8}$/);
hope this helps...
jwm
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