I can’t do Unix.
> On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:51, BobH. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> My thought relates to OsX being a variant of Linux, which itself was derived 
> from unix, so you should have the basic unix tools for dicing and slicing - 
> cut, sort, uniq, can't remember them all now; but remember we had to write 
> scripts with these to chop and change files like this.
> I now do it with PHP, but would still need file dimensions;  but that is the 
> one way it would work well and efficiently, if you knew the commands and 
> parameters. PHP is particularly good for this once you isolate the 
> separator.
> 
> Can't say more without having a file to chew, and you don't, or shouldn't 
> want to part with that.
> 
> Sorry to hear you had that much trouble, worse than you last said by the 
> sound of it.
> 
> RobH.
> 
> Ps:  I'm missing the obvious,  CSV means comma-separated Variables.
> 
> So, find a spreadsheet, they can all import that format, then find the 
> offending column, mark it from top to bottom, then hit delete to empty the 
> fields;  then do save-as, call it something else or add a 2 or 3 somewhere 
> to save overwriting the original, then you should be able to import that 
> clean and fill in the real dates after, all be it individually. Empty fields 
> have nothing between commas at that point.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 9:38 PM
> Subject: A little help with Calendar please.
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I’d like a little advice about my calendar please.
> 
> Recently, my contacts, notes and E-mails  got into the wrong hands as it 
> were, although I didn’t realise my e-mails were being monitored for a couple 
> of months until a few weeks ago.  Thus I was able to save some of my 
> contacts as I had them copied to a portable SSD drive.  All the contacts 
> that I had left were in a CSV file and when I imported them back to my 
> devices once I got Internet back again, all my contacts had some numbers at 
> the end from my CSV file so that all the contacts have a date of birth for 
> approximately of 15 years ago so that all my contacts are of the age of 15 
> years of age.
> 
> So I need to change all these numbers to either the proper date of birth or 
> get rid of the numbers altogether.
> 
> Is there a way of manipulating all the date of birth fields in one go and 
> thus clearing the calendar of all the dates of births’ please so that I can 
> choose to put dates of birth’s for some of my contacts please?  I am also 
> choosing to use two step verification for my Appple ID so that I never am 
> compromised again by anyone.  It was most upsetting waking up one morning to 
> find that everything had disappeared from my I phone.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kawal.
> 
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