[REBOL] Re: Perl is to stupid to understand this 1 liner.
From: doncox:enterprise at: 18-Dec-2001 11:29
On 18-Dec-01, Joel Neely wrote:
> That's an interesting (although severely non-trivial) approach to
> the development issue, but I was describing a property of the
> problem space itself. Using myself as a case in point, I made up
> a list of the ways I've actually seen US phone numbers written or
> typed/typeset:
>
> 551-1211
> 800-552-1212
> 1-800-553-1213
> 1+800-554-1214
> 800/555-1215
> (800)556-1216
> (800) 557-1217
> 800.558.1218
> 1.800.559.1219
The rule here seems to be "a set of from 2 to 4 strings of 1 to 4 digits,
delimited by +, -, (, ), /, . or "ext or EXT".
I guess the first thing is to look for any string of 8 to 24 characters
containing only the above characters and spaces. The first character
must be a digit or (, so you can use them as a trigger to start
examining the next few characters.
The false positives are a problem as a product code might be formatted
exactly like a phone number, especially like your first example.
My phone number is 44-1642-881220
Regards
--
Don Cox
[doncox--enterprise--net]
