ASU : can't import vcf contacts

[jknechtel]

Tanks, that works just fine for me. I exported around 70 contacts from
Evolution 2.22.3.1 and I was not able to import them before using your sed
string...

Johann


julien cubizolles wrote:
> 
> Le mardi 26 août 2008 à 17:54 +0200, julien cubizolles a écrit :
> 
>> I did :
>> 
>> sed -r -e 's/;TYPE=([^,]+),[^;]+;/;TYPE=\1;/g' liste_nonphoto.vcf |
>> iconv -t 'ascii//TRANSLIT' > newfile.vcf
>> 
>> and newfile.vcf still has some HOME,VOICE fields
> 
> I adapted the sed line : it's now 
> sed -r -e 's/;TYPE=([^,]+),[^;]+([;:])/;TYPE=\1\2;/g' liste_nonphoto.vcf
> 
> and it's now picking up the "HOME,VOICE" strings whether they end up
> with a ";" or ":". The multiple entries are now all removed.
> 
> I also added a -e 's/\\n/ /g' to get read of some strange newlines I had
> lying around.
> 
> I can now import some of my contacts picked at random in a large .vcf
> file if I put them in another shorter .vcf file but I can't import the
> whole lot of them (several tens) because of some other error I can't
> find and the Freerunner isn't verbose enough to tell me which one
> fails. 
> 
> Is there some king of strict-vcf-format-checker somewhere I could use ? 
> 
> Julien.
> 
> 
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