PERL-Copy-Contacts

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# Scan contacts in CWD, and copy email of contact to clipboard
# Separator character can be sent in command-line ("," is default)
# nad - 2005-04-29

# Requirements
use Win32;
use Win32::Clipboard;
use Cwd;

# Set up local environment
$clip = Win32::Clipboard();
$cwd = cwd;
$separator = $#ARGV == 0 ? pop(@ARGV) : ",";
@emails = ();
@bad_links = ();
@no_emails = ();

# Retrieve contacts' email addresses
if ($cwd =~ /(.+my organisation\/)/i) {
	my $contacts = "$1C - Contacts/";
	opendir(DIR, cwd) || die "can't open CWD!";
	for (grep /^C-.+$/i, readdir DIR) {
		s/.lnk$//i;
		s/^c-//i;
		my $contact = $_;
		my $opened = 1;
		opendir(CONTACT, $contacts."C-$contact") or $opened = 0;
		if ($opened == 1) {
			my @list = map {/(.+)\.url$/; "\"$contact\"<$1>";} grep /[@]+/, readdir CONTACT;
			$#list+1 ? push @emails, @list : push @no_emails, $contact;
			closedir CONTACT;
			} else {push @bad_links, $contact}
		}
	closedir DIR;
	}

# Report non-existent contacts
Win32::MsgBox(join("\n", @bad_links), MB_ICONEXCLAMATION, "Could not find the following contacts!")
	if $#bad_links+1;

# Report contacts without emails addresses
Win32::MsgBox(join("\n", @no_emails), MB_ICONINFORMATION, "The following contacts have no email address...")
	if $#no_emails+1;

# Copy to clipboard as separated list
$clip->Set( join $separator, @emails );