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Thu, 24 November 2011 07:39

Sandman
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Registered: August 2011

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So, I have a list of phone numbers in various formats I.e. the users
have written them in different styles, with and without dashes, spaces
and so on.

Now I want to format them. I have a text file with all the area codes
for Sweden, so I remove any non-digit character from the phone number
and then I parse out the area code. I am now left with the phone
number. An example:

In-data: 0703051947
Parse out area code: 070
Phone number: 3051947

Now, I have an array with formattings, that looks like this:

$formats = array("### ##", "## ## ##", "### ## ##");

The phone number above is never more than 7 digits long (as far as I
know) in Sweden, so these formats should suffice. Let me explain, in
the array, we have formats for 5, 6 and 7 digit phone numbers, set up
in a specific way. So this phone number in my example above is 7
digits, so it should be formatted as such:

305 19 47

With me so far? What I don't know is exactly how to do it. This is my
code thus far:

$number = "3051947";
foreach ($formats as $f){
$chars = strlen(preg_replace("/[^#]/", "", $f));
}

So, $chars contains the number of digits the given format takes, and
then I want to compare it to how many digits I have in $number.

My problem:

I'm not sure where to start in converting $number into a string that
matches the matching format, I.e. replace the first "#" with 3, the
second with 0 and so on.

Any hints or pointers?

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[Message index]

		Phone number formatting By: Sandman on Thu, 24 November 2011 07:39
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Jonathan Stein on Thu, 24 November 2011 08:55
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Sandman on Thu, 24 November 2011 12:27
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Jonathan Stein on Thu, 24 November 2011 16:45
		Re: Phone number formatting By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 24 November 2011 09:43
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Sandman on Thu, 24 November 2011 13:22
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 24 November 2011 15:17
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Sandman on Fri, 25 November 2011 08:09
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 26 November 2011 19:39
		Re: Phone number formatting By: Sandman on Mon, 28 November 2011 07:39

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