[Remind-Fans] Date::Remind::Event - Manipulate remind output with Perl

[David F. Skoll]

Mark Lawrence wrote:

>     git clone git://github.com/mlawren/date-remind-event.git

> Feedback is welcome.

One comment about a comment in your code:

        # There is an extra duration field, not documented in rem2ps
        $body =~ s/.*? //;

Actually, that's not true.  The remind "-b" option controls whether or
not to include the time in the body.  So given the file:

REM 6 July AT 18:00 DURATION 1:00 MSG test

you get these results:

$ remind -b0 -s test.rem 1 july 2010
2010/07/06 * * 60 1080 6:00-7:00pm test

$ remind -b1 -s test.rem 1 july 2010
2010/07/06 * * 60 1080 18:00-19:00 test

$ remind -b2 -s test.rem 1 july 2010
2010/07/06 * * 60 1080 test

-b0 is the default.  (Arguably, this sort of processing should be done
by the back-end that produces the calendar rather than by Remind itself,
but it's been this way for ages.)

Regards,

David.