From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2003-03-16T05:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: vcard 0.1 - a vCard decoding library


Well, you could always return an array.
 puts card[:email] #=> [ rich@infoether.com ]


On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:05:34AM +0900, Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoteing rich@infoether.com, on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:15:57AM +0900:
> > One quick recommendation is to use the index method [] as an alias for 
> > value_of on the VCard object...that way you could do this:
> > 
> > VCDATA =<<END
> > BEGIN:VCARD
> > VERSION:3.0
> > N:Kilmer;Rich;;;
> > FN:Kilmer Rich
> > EMAIL;type=HOME:rich@monotheos.com
> > EMAIL;type=WORK;type=pref:rich@infoether.com
> > END:VCARD
> > END
> > 
> > card = Rfc2425::VCard.new(VCDATA)
> > puts card["email"] #=> rich@infoether.com
> 
> I thought about it, but didn't because I ran into the "which one do I
> return, there can be multiple fields with that name" problem.
> 
> I just looked at RFC2426 in more detail, though, and it appears that
> type=pref is allowed for a lot of things that can have multiple
> occurences.


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Alan Chen
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