Re: OT - trivial programming language

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:35, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> Hi Richard
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > 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 did a similar thing using awk. Actually, it tries to convert a
> xml addressbook format to csv, but it can be rewritten to do the
> other way.
>
> See http://www.fahnenmueller.privat.t-online.de/abx2csv/
[...]
Thanks, Joachim.  I have downloaded it and had a quick look.  I find 
awk very taxing to read, but I get the drift, and shall be able to 
learn a few things from it - if I can only fond the time to sit with 
the man page and the script ...

-- 
richard