Maintaining an Address Book
In this section, you will look at solving a common problem for many people: tracking addresses and phone numbers. Many people, myself included, often get business cards or e-mail messages from people they need to keep in touch with. E-mail messages and business cards have a tendency to get lost, leading to problems when you need to contact someone. A nice solution to this problem is to store all the contact information on the computer so that you can access and manipulate it easily.
In this section, you will develop a set of scripts that work together to maintain a simple address book. The address book will store the following information:
Name
E-mail address
Postal address
Phone number
Each of these pieces of information ...
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