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.
I could do this by exporting to cvs, importing to gnumeric (or any spreadsheet), shuffling the columns around, re-exporting to cvs and importing back to abook. I'll lose a lot more than I want to, as the abook cvs is only a partial dump. I could do it in BASIC - I still vaguely remember my first language! I could probably do it in perl - but I've never really learned perl, and would have to work from the manual. 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. I really do need to equip myself with a convenient scripting language for all these day-to-day admin tasks, and I'd like it if it can do a little maths for me at time too. Please advise me which manual to open. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]