fractureMech,
Ok - I don't own a Palm Pilot, but I think this will work. With statements from the POD like "I don't know what these are.", I have to agree with your assesment of the documentation. You might also want to take a look at pdbdump which comes with the p5-Palm-1.3.0 suite 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::CSV;
use Palm::PDB;
use Palm::Address;

my $pdb = new Palm::PDB;
$pdb->Load("myfile.pdb") or die "Unable to attach to address book";
my $csv = Text::CSV->new();

my @order = qw(
    name firstName company phone1 phone2
    phone3 phone4 phone5 address city
    state zipCode country title custom1
    custom2 custom3 custom4 note
);

open (OUTPUT, ">address.csv") or die "Unable to open output file : $!"
+;
select OUTPUT;

for my $record (@{$pdb->{records}}) {
    my @output;
    for my $field (@order) {
        if (exists $record->{fields}{$field}) {
            push @output, $record->{fields}{$field};
        }
        else {
            push @output, '';
        }
    }
    if ($csv->combine(@output)) {
        my $string = $csv->string;
        print $string, "\n";
    }
    else {
        my $err = $csv->error_input;
        print STDOUT "combine() failed on argument: ", $err, "\n";
    }
}

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Cheers and I hope it helps - L~R

In reply to Re: examples using Palm::Addressbook? by Limbic~Region
in thread examples using Palm::Addressbook? by fractureMech

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