Ken: Although it's not a Perl soultion, here's a link which might give you just what you need:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030831221023355&query=vcard Hope this helps. Bill J. __________________________________________________ On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Ken Williams wrote: > > > For my wedding > > Congratulations! > > > I made an AppleWorks database containing the names of all the wedding > > guests, their addresses, emails, and so on. Now I want to merge that > > info back into Address Book. > > > > Anyone have recommendations for how to do this nicely? I thought > > about creating vCards and merging them somehow, but none of the CPAN > > vCard modules seem to actually be able to create them. Also, I'm not > > exactly clear on how I'd do the merge anyway. Is there some way to > > tap into iSync or something? > > Err, this may be a more annoying than helpful suggestion, but have you > considered using Palm Desktop as an intermediary? It can import data in > a variety of formats, including CSV. If you can get your AppleWorks > database to make a report in a CSV format that Palm Desktop can use, > then Palm Desktop can in turn export the data in a format that Address > Book can import (e.g. vCard). > > There's probably a more direct way to do this, but this may be easier. > You can download Palm Desktop for free whether or not you're a Palm > user, and it is reasonably good at this kind of task. > > >