Re: [Gtkpod-devel] iCal export, problem and solution

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Adrian Dusa wrote:
>> This is my first post to the list and I think this might be
>> interesting.  I wanted to syncronize the KOrganizer calendar with my
>> Video iPod 5G.  Normaly, this is extremely easy using the default
>> script found (in my distro) in:
>> /usr/share/gtkpod-aac/scripts/sync-korganizer.sh
>>
>> The problem is related to the exportd file: both KOrganizer's and
>> GtkPod's exported .ics file separate entries by an empty row.
>>
>> The iPod does _not_ like this empty row, thus showing only the first
>> calendar item and the first to do item so on.
>>
>> Solution: get rid of the empty rows in the exported file.
>> I'm currently doing this with Find and Replace using this regexp:
>> Find: [\n\r]{2,}
>> Replace: \n
>>
>> ... but it would be a lot easier if the GtkPod's script would do it
>> by default.
> 
> There is code in the script that should strip out empty lines.  Do you
> have an example file that the script doesn't work on which you could
> post?
> 
> Here's the part that's intended to weed empty lines:
> 
> cat $DATAFILE | grep -v '^[[:space:]]$\|^$'
> 
> I'm not sure about the grep regex there.  It seems to me that it could
> be simplified to '^[[:space:]]*$' so that it would match any line that
> had only 0 or more spaces in it.  As it is now it will match empty
> lines and lines that begin with exactly one space.
> 
> If your korganizer file has more than one space on the "empty" lines,
> then this grep won't catch them and they'll end up on the iPod.

Has this patch been confirmed to work? If yes, you're welcome to submit it.

Cheers,


JCS.