Drat! I cleaned up the output and broke something else. Zeros at the
front of phone number parts were being dropped (thanks Joe Hildebrand).
Sorry about all the traffic on this one.
Jack
-- latest version of phone.perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#Author: Jack Vinson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#Date
Okay, that Perl script I sent out yesterday doesn't deal with non-US
numbers. Jamie has them formatted differently than US-style numbers, so
they weren't being found when I parsed each phone entry.
Here is the corrected script with a slightly cleaner output:
--
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
Well, Graham got me thinking about this and I think I've managed to write a
Perl script which will grab the phone numbers and display them for you
without ever requiring that emacs be started OR having a separate
bbdb-phones file sitting about. Just think how much fun I had trying to
write a reg
Graham Gough wrote:
>
> which was accessible outside emacs (yes, there is life outside emacs).
You have not yet found The Way.
> In order to make the BBDB info accessible in the same way I've written
> a simple function to dump phone nos out of BBDB, so now my phone
WHAP!
(And suddenly, years
I have recently started using BBDB, and am finding it extremely
useful; thanks Jamie.
I had previously used a 1986 vintage rolodex mode, but it didn't have
half the utility of BBDB. However, it did have the feature that its
info was stored in a textual form (single line entries with embedded
C-m'
