A short C program to parse tab separated UoS module timetable data to Google .csv format.

shef2csv.c

/* for converting tab separated UoS module timetable data to Google .csv */

/*
Notes:
 - issue with week number ranges. Duplicate lines to remove ranges before running.
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAXLINE	1000	/* maximum input line size */

int getline(char line[], int maxline);
//void copy(char to[], char from[])
void getdate1(char dow[], char week[], char date[]);

int j=0;

/* read tab separated values into separate (jth) string and print in special format */
int main ()
{
	int len;
	char line[10][MAXLINE];
	char date[10];
	
	printf("Subject,Start Date,Start Time,End Time,Location,Description\n");
		
	while ((len = getline(line[j], MAXLINE)) > 0)
		if (j == 0) {
			getdate1(line[3], line[6], date);
			printf("\"%s %s\",\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s, %s\",\"Lecture for %s - %s with %s at %s\"\n",line[0], line[2], date, line[4], line[5], line[7], line[8], line[0], line[1], line[9], line[7]);
		}
	
	return 0;
}

/* getline: read a line into s, return length */
int getline(char s[], int lim)
{
	int i;
	char c;

	for (i=0; i<lim-1 && (c=getchar())!=EOF && c!='\n' && c!='\t'; ++i)
		s[i] = c;
	
	if (c == '\t')
		++j;
	
	if (c == '\n')
		j = 0;

	s[i] = '\0';

	return i;
}

/* copy: copy 'from' into 'to'; assume 'to' is big enough */
/*void copy(char to[], char from[])
{
	int i;
	
	i = 0;
	while ((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
		++i;
}*/

void getdate1(char dow[], char week[], char date[])
{
	int weeknum, wday, days_to_add;
	struct tm * newtime;
	struct tm str_time;
	time_t time_of_day;
		
	//printf("%s\n", dow);

	if (dow[0] == 'M')
		wday = 1;
	if (dow[0] == 'T' && dow[1] == 'u')
		wday = 2;
	if (dow[0] == 'W')
		wday = 3;
	if (dow[0] == 'T' && dow[1] == 'h')
		wday = 4;
	if (dow[0] == 'F')
		wday = 5;
	if (dow[0] == 'S' && dow[1] == 'a')
		wday = 6;
	if (dow[0] == 'S' && dow[1] == 'u')
		wday = 0;
	
	weeknum = atoi(week);
	days_to_add = weeknum * 7 + wday;
	
	str_time.tm_year = 2011-1900;
	str_time.tm_mon = 9-1;
	str_time.tm_mday = 18+days_to_add;
	str_time.tm_hour = 0;
	str_time.tm_min = 0;
	str_time.tm_sec = 0;
	str_time.tm_isdst = 0;
	
	time_of_day = mktime(&str_time);	
	newtime = localtime(&time_of_day);
	strftime(date,10,"%d/%m/%Y\n",newtime);
	printf("%s\n", date);
}