Addressbook cant read .csv-files exported from Numbers (Solved)

Hello,
I can hardly believe this myself, but please try. Numbers separates fields by semicolons while exporting my address data to a .csv file, which seems completely feasible to me. When trying to import this into Addressbook, the applications moans that it cant import this file because it is not valid.
Do programmers from separate groups at Apple ever test whether their Apps work together? I just expect them to do so and I cant imagine a case more simple then that. This is really poor. The reason why I put this complaint in the Numbers discussion is, that there is no forum for Adressbook (whereas iCal got his own - why?).
And the reason why I pick up this topic again in a new thread is that the other thread I found related to transferring data from Numbers to Addressbook took a weird twist when they resorted to writing a complicated and elaborate Apple Script for this basic task. The Script provided there messed up with valuable Address data in the first version, so I am not going to try it here.
I just took the search and replace functionality of my text editor to solve it for me. But I still believe that this should work without headaches right out of the box. So Addressbook programmers please hurry up, go, fix it. It is just too distressing. Imagine, I did this in public with Windows guys around. I dont want to experience such again.
Yours, Christian Völker

Hello Yvan,
yes, I agree that Numbers is doing fine and by your explanation I even know why it does the way it does, but Addressbook remains broken.
Regarding your script I did not even bother to read it and I just dont trust it because I cant sue you in case something goes wrong. I prefer to do my own faults and in this case it was an even better and faster solution for me to use my text editor with search and replace.
To make the story complete, after the data was accepted, Addressbook wasnt able to recognize the field labeled "Email" as an Email Address and Street as a Street Name. After telling Addressbook about the meaning of the fields, it consistently crashed while importing. No, this is no good. A Script wont heal these flaws.

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