I'll freely admit that I don't have much of a clue here, but I hate seeing nodes go unanswered. I started with Google (Outlook iCalendar "visual basic" MVP) ("visual basic" because VB is generally very easy to translate to Perl and examples should abound, and "MVP" because MS Most Valuable Players usually know what they are talking about), and found this page: Using PHP to Make Basic vCalendar/iCalendar Events, which seems promising because it has a couple examples of vCalendar files as well as several links on iCalendar/vCalendar specs. A purely visual comparison of your iCalendar file and their sample suggests a couple ideas you might try:

I'm shooting in the dark here, but I do hope this helps... Good luck!

Update: Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Ed. has an example in Chapter 2: Parsing Techniques, on getting information out of iCal; the author, Simon Cozens, mentions a module called Net::ICal, used "to read and write iCalendar data." Perhaps that module may help you, although it does sound like he's using it with Apple's version of iCalendar...

planetscape

In reply to Re: Create an Outlook iCalendar entry? by planetscape
in thread Create an Outlook iCalendar entry? by traveler

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