Re: OT - trivial programming language
* richard lyons (richard@the-place.net) wrote:
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> 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.
Have you considered Vim. Open the original file. Write a macro, test it on
the first line. Apply it to the whole file.
Regexes work in a way that this is familiar to users of sed and perl.
And a wonderful mailing list with people eager to take up your task as a
challenge.
Just a thought.
Nick
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