iCalendar is a standard (RFC 2445) for calendar data exchange.
I plan to transfer data from iCalendar files (extension .ics), to a
linked Outlook calendar table. While Outlook (2002) has an import
strand for this, it does not seem to work with the format I shall be
importing. iCalendar files are not comma delimited files.
My first inclination is to open the iCalendar file with low level DOS
commands, to parse its contents with Regular Expressions and to use
dynamic SQL strings to put the data into the Calendar file. I expect
this will be super fast and efficient, and, better still, entirely
under my control, that is: "Custom".
But, perhaps there is a better way? A search for "iCal" in this group
turned up nothing useful, only posts about special non-calendar uses of
the string.