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Re: Contacts printing



On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> >>> I wish a way to print the
>> >>> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.


Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

>> >> I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to
>> >> parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out.


Rodolfo:
 
>> > Every file is like this:
>> >
>> > BEGIN:VCARD
>> > VERSION:2.1
>> > N:;Oliver Hardy ;;;
>> > TEL;CELL:3391234567
>> > TEL;VOICE;HOME:081123567
>> > FN:Oliver Hardy
>> > END:VCARD
>> >
>> > , so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like that?


"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

>> > So, assume that anything is possible:
>> >
>> > 1.	What do you want to do?


Rodolfo:
 
>> I want to cat all those file into one file and then sort the above entries, I
>> don't know how.  I also want to eliminate redundant symbols and words like
>> `BEGIN:VCARD', `END:VCARD', `N:;', `VERSION:2.1' etc.


Douglas:
 
>> > 2.	In what language do you want to do it?


Rodolfo:
 
>> This is the same for me.


Douglas:

> What I mean is, in which programming language(s) are you proficient?



None.
Rodolfo



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