Hi Richard On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. > > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as > many fields as possible. > > (...) > > But it seems to me most rational to use the opportunity to begin > learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention of. > So the question is, which do you people recommend? > > The input data will be the cvs dump from kmail, and the output will be > abook native format, which is a series of numbered paragraphs , > reminiscent of an doze .ini file. That is to say, it begins: > [2] > name=name > [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > address=address_1 > address2=address_2 > city=hereville > ... > so I assume sed is less than optimal. It seems like a function I > might need again, so it is worth having it in a script. > > (...) > TIA > > -- > richard >
I did a similar thing using awk. Actually, it tries to convert a xml addressbook format to csv, but it can be rewritten to do the other way. See http://www.fahnenmueller.privat.t-online.de/abx2csv/ HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
