Re: Outlook Addressbook Import

You can export the address book to a CSV file and then read that. The only caveout is that some fields may contain newlines, so you can't equate end-of-line with end-of-record. I have no idea if the CSV modules out there handle this correctly, but last I checked (~1 year ago) they didn't. I believe you have an option in Outlook of what fields to export, so if you find it just export the fields you want.

Tiago

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Re: Re: Outlook Addressbook Import by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2002 at 22:10 UTC
tillys Text::xSV handles linefeeds in CSV records, as long as the values are quoted. It's a pure Perl module and thus relatively slow, but I guess that importing stuff from the Outlook object model and/or the MAPI accesses would be the bigger bottleneck. `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Outlook Addressbook Import
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2002 at 22:10 UTC

tillys Text::xSV handles linefeeds in CSV records, as long as the values are quoted. It's a pure Perl module and thus relatively slow, but I guess that importing stuff from the Outlook object model and/or the MAPI accesses would be the bigger bottleneck.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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