Parsing Text, is automator the tool for this?

Question

Hi gang, I would like to create a script to convert my work schedule that shows on the company website to iCal events. I am brand new to applescript and automator, so I don't even know if this is the toolset to do this, or if it's too complicated. Here's a snippit of my schedule:
05DEC 5363 CVG 1315 IAH 1500
What I'd like the event to read is "5363 CVG IAH" at 1:15PM-3:00PM on Dec 5th. I'd like to have the website up and copy each event one at a time and alt-tab to automator to paste each line into an input box so it could parse the text, figure out 05DEC means 5th of December, then figures out that "5363 CVG IAH" would be the event and 1315 and 1500 are the start and end times (in military time). Too tough, or is it do-able? It would save a lot of time and possible errors if I could enter my schedule in by pasting each event verses manually typing the times, etc. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you read TD's answer carefully, it says
It cannot have the Library on a networked location, such as a NAS. iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
The main problem is the formatting of the drive - for Aperture holds the same: The library needs to be on a disk formatted MacOS X Extended. Otherwise you are risking inconsistencies in your Aperture library  and open a can of worms, see:
Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
If you absolutey want to store your Photolibrary on a NAS, you can create a writable diskimage formatted MacOS X extended on your NAS and store the library on this disk image. You will have to take care to automount the diskimage before you access Aperture. This will be tedious and slow.
The question, if you can put your Aperture library on a network volume is open to a debate, but I would not do it.
For a good performance the access to the Aperture library needs to be very fast - I'd put the library on the fastest drive you have, with a very fast port, Thunderbolt, for example. My library sits on a second internal drive.
Your network needs to be very stable, if you want reliable database transactions for your Aperture library.
2. While you can run iPhoto in Referenced mode, with the Masters on a NAS and the library on a local disk, this is inherently unreliable. Here has more:
This is better in Aperture. Other than iPhoto Aperture has built-in tools to deal with referenced original files. So you can move the bulk of your image files to an external volume and keep only the Aperture library on your internal volume.
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Léonie