On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> I wish a way to print the > >>> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file. > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to > >> parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out. > > Rodolfo: > > > Every file is like this: > > > > BEGIN:VCARD > > VERSION:2.1 > > N:;Oliver Hardy ;;; > > TEL;CELL:3391234567 > > TEL;VOICE;HOME:081123567 > > FN:Oliver Hardy > > END:VCARD > > > > , so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like that? > > Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What are the filenames? > > They're numbers: 115, 116,... 392,... > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well its possible. The how is back to your choice of language. > > > If you just want a list printed, assuming that there is at least a blank > > line at the top or bottom of every file, you could just cat them > > together then print the file. It won't be sorted unless the file names > > are sorted already. > > The file names are not sorted. > > > So, assume that anything is possible: > > > > 1. What do you want to do? > > I want to cat all those file into one file and then sort the above entries, I > don't know how. I also want to eliminate redundant symbols and words like > `BEGIN:VCARD', `END:VCARD', `N:;', `VERSION:2.1' etc. > > > 2. In what language do you want to do it? > > This is the same for me.
What I mean is, in which programming language(s) are you proficient? If it were me, I'd write a Python script. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
