Transfer Phone Numbers from gammu to the Mac Adressbook

ok, make yourself comfortable, fasten your seatbelt and stop smoking. This will be quite a journey:

1. Get gammu and backup the phone data:
   $ gammu backup phonedata.txt -yes
2. open phonedata.txt and save it in „MacRoman“ encoding with Unix line endings

3. run it through this ruby script:

   #!/usr/bin/ruby -w -- 
       
   # http://www.rubycentral.com/pickaxe/
   # http://homepage.mac.com/phrogz/CSV2vCard_v2.html
       
   records = {}
   fields = {}
       
   eor = /^[ \t]*$/
   bor = /^\[([^0-9\]]+)([0-9]*)\]$/
   etype = /^Entry([0-9]+)Type\s+=\s+(\S+)$/
   etext = /^Entry([0-9]+)Text\s+=\s+"(.*)"/
       
   record_type = nil
   entry_type = nil
   tmp = nil
       
   $stdin.each do |l|
     if (eor =~ l) == 0
       records[record_type] = [] if records[record_type].nil?
       records[record_type] << tmp if tmp
   #   puts '-- EOR --'
       record_type = entry_type = tmp = nil
       next
     end
     m = bor.match l
     if m
   #   puts "#{m[1]} - #{m[2]}"
       record_type = "#{m[1]}"
       tmp = {}
       next
     end
     if 'PhonePBK' == record_type
       m = etype.match l
   #   raise "Parse Error: #{l}" if entry_type.nil? && m.nil?
       if m
   entry_type = "#{m[2]}"
       else
   m = etext.match l
   if m
     raise 'Parse Error' if entry_type.nil?
     if 'Name' == entry_type
       name = "#{m[2]}".split ' '
       tmp[entry_type = 'LastName'] = "#{name[name.length-1]}"
       fields[entry_type] = entry_type
       name[name.length-1] = nil
       name.compact!
       
       count = 0
       name.each do |tn|
   tmp[entry_type = "Name_#{count}"] = tn
   fields[entry_type] = entry_type
   count += 1
       end
     else
       fields[entry_type] = entry_type
   #         puts "#{entry_type} = #{m[2]}"
       tmp[entry_type] = "#{m[2]}"
     end
     entry_type = nil
   end
       end
     end
   end
       
   keys = fields.keys.sort
   sep = ','
   puts "\##{keys.join(sep)}"
   records['PhonePBK'].each do |item|
     tmp = ''
     keys.each do |key|
       v = item[key]
       v = '' if v.nil?
       v.gsub! "'", "''"
       tmp = "#{tmp}'#{v}'#{sep}"
     end
     puts tmp
   end
   

4. run the result through a csv to vcard converter,

5. remove all single quotes ' from the vcards,

6. import the vcards into the osx addressbook.

And guess what – that really works! The script is quite a hack but does the job. I thought about rewriting it using closures prior publishing but left it as a homework to you.

[Update] Maybe iSync would have done the trick, too.