[LRUG] Reading Outlook Contacts

[Andrew Stewart]

Hi Chris,

On 6 Feb 2013, at 12:41, Chris Lane wrote:
> Might be worth taking a quick look into VCards, I think that Outlook allows you to export to VCard, but that might change according to version. VCards have meta data and I think you have a few options for parsing in Ruby. 

I don't think Outlook allows export to vCard (at least not without jumping through hoops like emailing contacts to yourself).  I believe Outlook's primary export format for casual users is CSV.

Thanks,
Andy