On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:43:23PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:21:43AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all! > > > > i could convert my outlook contact folder information into a csv file. > > it has several fields that are uncommon - spouse's name, etc. > > > > now, i have started using mutt and will like to use information in the > > same file. either as aliases or through abook. > > Mutt aliases are designed to handle email aliases; they're not going to > support things like someones' spouses' name and "Internet Free Busy".
i know. so only i was asking for a solution. this is a very characteristic microsoft way of making sure that the users just dont go away > Even abook doesn't support all the fields you posted. My suggestion > would be to make this your very first perl project. Start simple, > learning how to load the file into an array of lines, then splitting > each line into a bloody enormous hash (with the field names as keys), > then searching through, then adding new records and deleting old ones. > It wouldn't take more than a couple hundred lines, I'd wager. My big > hint would be to have a look at the 'split' function (man perlfunc), how > arrays and hashes work (man perldata) and Data::Dumper (man > Data::Dumper). frightening. i have -never- done programming myself. i will have to spend hours of time on this and in the meantime, i am helpless without addressbook! > If you felt extra eager, you could either hack on abook (it's written in > C, AFAICT) ohh!! thats even more frightening to support either the extra fields or arbitrary fields or > write a script to store all the non-abook-compatible stuff as key=value > pairs in the 'notes' field. this also will do. thanx for help, anyway sandip p deshmukh ------***-------- Entreprenuer, n.: A high-rolling risk taker who would rather be a spectacular failure than a dismal success. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]