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address book export to .addressbook file


  • Subject: address book export to .addressbook file
  • From: "Patrick Collins" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
  • Organization: Collinator Studios

Hello Applescripters...  I need a lot of help with this one:

I am using pine, the unix commandline email program..  however it
references an addressbook file called .addressbook which has the format
of this:

Nickname, Fullname, Email Address(es), Fcc, Comment

So..  What I am trying to do is go through each addressbook card and
extract those fields into the following format example:

Nickname="Default Company"
Fullname="John Smith"
    EmailAddress="email@hidden" -- If multiple addresses, it must
be "(email@hidden,email@hidden,email@hidden)
Fcc=""
Comment="He's a visionary" (Notes field from Addressbook)

After this information is extracted from addressbook, then I need to
modify the .addressbook file and add to it:

Nickname+(TAB)+Fullname+(TAB)+Fcc+(TAB)+Comment

...

So far, I have this (which is not much I know):

activate application "Address Book"
tell application "Address Book"
    set theNames to name of every person
    set theEmails to email of every person
end tell
activate application "iTerm"
repeat with x in theNames
    tell application "iTerm"
        write text x
    end tell
end repeat

...  I cannot get the emails to work, it keeps showing up as this in the
log: {email 1 of person id "145F0118-2128-11D9-8C79-000D9337B3FC:ABPerson"}

.. so I am a little stuck..  can anyone please help?

I wsa trying to have my terminal program do the text writing, but that
wasn't working..  Though it doesn't matter, it could be done in
text-edit as long as there are TAB keys inbetween each field.

I thank you in advance for the guidance.

-patrick

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