* richard lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> H 0.000000
> 
> On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:35, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> > 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.

Have you considered Vim. Open the original file. Write a macro, test it on
the first line. Apply it to the whole file.

Regexes work in a way that this is familiar to users of sed and perl.

And a wonderful mailing list with people eager to take up your task as a
challenge.

Just a thought.

Nick


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